What She Had To Lyrics - Mountains - Lonestar

I was three years old sitting in the seat 

Of a Greyhound bus, my brother and me 

Mama's tears falling like a Carolina rain 

'Cause she pulled out a gun the night before 

Said he ain't gonna drink and hit me no more 

She pulled the trigger on my father in a moment's range 

Thank God that gun wasn't loaded 

Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 

Now she held her babies tight 

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 

She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was 

She was gonna do what she had to 

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She got her a job in a trailer out west 

It wasn't much but she was doing her best 

Putting food on the table for her family 

But then one day I came home from school 

My mama was crying alone in her room 

She said,? I lost my job and we're gonna lose the trailer too? 

And she got that Volkswagen loaded 

Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 

Now she held her babies tight 

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 

She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was 

She was gonna do what she had to 

Whenever things go wrong in my life 

I just think of her, what it took that night 

To get on that bus in the Carolina rain 

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Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 

She held her babies tight 

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 

She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was 

She was gonna do what she had to 

What she had to 

What she had to 

What she had to