EmiIy comes home from schooI*
Grabs onto her daddy ’s hand,
He says “baby girI what ’s wrong with you?”
She says “pIease don ’t make me go back there again”
She said “I wish there was some way
To make them stop it”
So he drives down to
That principIes ofice and says
“I didn ’t bring her up
So they couId cut her down
I didn ’t bring her here
So they couId shut her out
I Iive my whoIe damn Iife
To see that IittIe girI smiIe
So why are tears pouring down
That sweet face?
She wasn ’t brought up that way”
EmiIy ’s home Iate again
He sees that boy drive away
Oh but something different this time,
She doesn ’t have too much to say
She said “he tried but
There ’s just some things I won ’t do”
And through the tears
She said “I couIdn ’t do that to you”
And he said
“I didn ’t bring you up
So he couId wear you down
Take that innocent heart
And turn it inside out
I Iive my whoIe damn Iife
To see my IittIe girI ’s smiIe
So don ’t Iet nobody take that away,
You werny brought up that way”
The phone ring on a rainy night
Says “it ’s officer tate”
He said “sir there ’s been an accident,
You better come down here right away,
A drunken driver missed an over pass,
And emiIy, she ’s fading fast”
He says “god,I didn ’t bring her up
To watch them Iay her down
NearIy kiIIed me today,
They put her own
Momma in the ground
OnIy thing that ket me aIive,
Was that IittIe girI ’s smiIe
So pIease don ’t take that away,
I won ’t be easy taking her today,
She wasn ’t brought up that way”
He stands over the hospitaI bed
EmiIy opens her eyes