Betty's Song-Ashley Condon

[ti:Betty's Song] [ar:Ashley Condon] [al:This Great Compromise] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Betty's Song - Ashley Condon [00:07.04]My momma knew the roads like the back of her hand [00:11.02] [00:14.16]In her old green ford she'd ride like the wind [00:18.57] [00:21.88]Up and down and back again [00:25.57] [00:35.23]My momma worked hard with her hands [00:39.60] [00:42.20]On a boat ten miles from land [00:46.44] [00:49.21]She'd work those days that most people can't [00:54.27] [01:03.31]But I wanted things that the other kids had [01:07.71] [01:10.27]Like a brother or a sister and a dad [01:14.63] [01:17.05]I was just too young to really understand [01:22.47] [01:31.15]My momma fought for everything she had [01:35.39] [01:37.60]For fifteen years and thirty grand [01:42.22] [01:44.90]She owned her home and all of her land [01:49.38] [01:51.82]My momma never really found romance [01:56.32] [01:58.10]They'd come and go like a passing glance [02:02.89] [02:06.26]Here, then gone and never back again [02:13.34] [02:46.83]But I wanted things that the other kids had [02:51.31] [02:53.55]Like a brother or a sister and a dad [02:57.89] [03:00.07]I was just too young to really understand [03:05.58] [03:07.18]That my momma did the best that she can [03:11.60] [03:14.36]Making me the woman that I am [03:18.46] [03:20.67]And I think that I may finally, I think that I may finally [03:28.22] [03:30.81]Understand