When You Have A Child Lyrics - All The Women I Am - Reba Mcentire

When you have a child 

You learn it's a serious business to have a little fun 

You give grace and get forgiveness 

Not seven times seventy but seven times seventy-one 

And when you have a child 

Those four walls you call a house 

Take on a life of its own when you bring 'em home 

You will cry and you will laugh 

When they hurt it cuts you in half, it's your flesh and bone 

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*Chorus* 

And year after year 

Pictures fill page after page 

They never really grow up 

Still your baby at any age 

And the first time you hold 'em, it's like you see God smile 

When you have a child 

And then boy meets girl 

And perfume and gasoline rain on your perfect world 

Curfews are often broken, thank yous aren't spoken 

He's got the keys to that old Dodge, and she's wearing a corsage and her mama's pearls 

*Repeat Chorus* 

Photos 

You pray that phone call never comes 

And if God forbid how would you live 

How could you go on and on and on and on 

And year after year close the chapter and turn the page 

Blue ribbons and losing season, flipping tassels on the stage 

Oh but you don't need a photograph 

You've got at least a million pictures of that smile 

Oh when you close your eyes 

When you love a child 

Oh when you love a child