G                        C                        G
she was in the backyard, say it was a little past nine
G                      C
when her prince pulled up
               G
a white pickup truck

her folks should have seen it comin'
       C                     G
it was only just a matter of time
              C
plenty old enough
                    G
and you can't stop love
                                      C                  G
she stuck a note on the screen door, "sorry but I got to go"
                     C                           G
and that was all she wrote, her mama's heart was broke
                     C                      G
and that was all she wrote and so the story goes

[Pre-chorus]
Em                              D
now her daddy's in the kitchen starin' out the window
  C                             G
a scratchin' and a rackin' his brains

[Chorus]
Em                            D             C
how could eighteen years just up and walk away
Em                               D
our little ponytailed girl grown up to be a woman
          C                      G
now she's gone in a blink of an eye
                                        D                          G
she left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin' out on the line

[Verse 2]
G                                              C                   G
now don't you wonder what the preacher's gonna preach about Sunday morn
                   C                        G
nothin' quite like this has happened here before
                                    C                       G
well, he must have been a looker, a smooth talkin' son of a gun
                    C                   G
for such a grounded girl to just up and run
                      C                       G
cause you can't fence time and you can't stop love

[Pre-chorus]
            Em                          D
Now all the biddy's in the beauty shop, gossip goin' nonstop
C                   G
sippin' on pink lemonade

[Chorus]
Em                             D           C
how could eighteen years just up and walk away
           Em                     D
Our little pony-tailed girl grown up to be a woman
           C                     G
Now she's gone in a blink of an eye
             G
She left the suds in the bucket
        D                          G
And the clothes hangin' out on the line

[Pre-chorus]
              Em                      D
She's got her pretty little bare feet hangin' out the window
            C                     G
And they're headin' up to Vegas tonight

[Chorus]
           Em             D          C
How could 18 years just up and walk away
           Em                     D
Our little pony-tailed girl grown up to be a woman
          C                      G
Now she's gone in a blink of an eye
             G
She left the suds in the bucket
         D                          G
And the clothes hangin' out on the line