[G]                            [D]
Well, she drove from California / In the hottest part of summer
        [G]                              [C]
Landed up in Taylor County, / the Texas town of Abilene.
           [G]                           [D]                            [C]
Where she wants to finish college / And make a brighter future for her son,
                  [G]
Who's nine years old.


The young boy's Daddy made a promise / That he'd love the mom forever
But I reckon that a promise / Doesn't say just what it means
For the Daddy broke his promise / And he also broke the heart of this
young son
Who's nine years old.


     [C]             [G]          [C]              [G]
But she's survivin' fine / She's splittin' up her time
       [C]                 [G]         [D]
Twixt work and school and fixin' up a meal.
         [C]              [G]           [C]             [G]
And her heart belongs to God / And she doesn't find it odd
      [C]                [G]         [D]
To expect He treats His promises as real.



Well, she's found herself a church home / made some friends up at the
workplace
Got her boy enrolled in school / and got her new place nice and clean.
But she finds that she's still lonely / she needs more love than she can
get from her young son,
Who's nine years old.

But she knows that she's a pilgrim / trav'ling to a great location
It's just that being on the road / sometimes makes Life seem kind of mean.
But she's trusting in her Savior / He'll be her husband and a father to
her son
Who's nine years old.


And she's survivin' fine / She's splittin' up her time
Twixt work and school and fixin' up a meal.
Her spirit and her mind / have strength enough to find
This life is just a shadow of what's real

She'll suffer come what may / And teach her son to pray
To make sure that he has the Holy Spirit's seal.
And her heart belongs to God / And she doesn't find it odd
To expect He treats His promises as real.


She hopes to see her son grow up well / learn to be a Godly man now
So that he can have a family / that is just what God has dreamed.
And she wants her son to show God / to his son and then his grandson
long before
they're nine years old.

To pass the flame, until he's old.