LONESTAR - What She Had To lyrics

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(John Edwards/Garrett Parris)

I was three years old, sittin' in the seat

Of a Greyhound bus, my brother and me

Mama's tears fallin' like the 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 rage

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

As she held her babies tight

And we rolled 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.

She got her a job and a trailer out West

It wasn't much, but she was doing her best

Putting food on the table for our 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"

She got that Volkswagen loaded.

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

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night

As she held her babies tight

And we rolled 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

And what it took that night

To get on that bus in the Carolina rain.

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

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night

As she held her babies tight

And we rolled 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.

Yeah, what she had to, yeah

(What she had to, what she had to...)