(Ruby VanNoy - Ann Burns - Barbara Fairchild)

Today for her it's only been thirteen years of livin'

And for me it's been a wonderful thirteen years of givin'

She grows taller every day and farther from my world

God help me reach this stranger my little girl

Music I can't understand replaced her nursery rhymes

No longer can I even guess what's running through her mind

Her long straight hair has forgotten ribbons and soft curles

God please protect this stranger my little girl

Can she hear the worried sound in her mom's conversation

Can she see the anquish in my look of desperation

Can she feel my love for her pulling against her world

I love her so this stranger my little girl



Has she so soon forgotten just how closed we used to be

And how went something troubled her she'd always run to me

But mom can't solve her problems she keeps locked inside her world

God help me reach this stranger my little girl

Can she hear the worried sound...