[Verse 1]
Little blonde ponytail
Boots by the front door
Ready to go
Sun just over the ridgeline
Truck key swinging from my old belt loop
She’s grinning
Says
“Come on
Pop Pop
We’re burning daylight”
West Virginia morning air
Smells like promise and muddy tires
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She’s my pop pop’s little mountain girl
Camouflage cap and a ribbon curl
Hunts at sunrise
Fishes till dark
Shoots that jump shot straight from the heart
Softball dirt on her scraped-up knees
Volleyball sand in her hair and sleeves
God chose me for her in this wide
Wide world
Thank You for my little mountain girl
[Verse 2]
She’ll sit quiet in the tree stand
Whisper ’bout school and her best friend’s jokes
Then she’ll shout when the bobber
Drops under green water
Splashing my boat
On that cracked blacktop in the driveway
She calls “Last shot wins!” with a fearless smile
From the field to the gym to the river bend
I’ve watched that brave heart grow wild
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[Bridge]
Sometimes at night I wonder
Why You trusted me with her smile
Why You wrote my name
In the story of this child
I hold her close and I just know
In Your hands
She’ll always be
You let me be her Pop Pop
That’s Your sweetest gift to me
[Chorus]