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 She laid her head on the bar

Watching tiny little stars

 Dance around in front of her eyes

And he cried on her shoulder

As he sat there and told her

Sad stories and pretty white lies

 And if not for that one indiscretion

 It would have been an uneventful day

 If not for that single obsession

 Things would never have gone that way

 But she had one last drink and she didn't think twice

 In fact she didn't think at all

My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

 They walked out of the bar

She climbed into his car

 And they drove to somewhere deep in the night

 Where she slipped off her ring

And the rest of her things

 And he switched off the tiny dome light

 She fell back in his arms without the slightest alarm

 Forgetting everything her mama once said

 And just for a moment in the back of her mind

 A tiny picture come and went in her head

 Oh she remembered a man who was waiting at home

 And a baby barely learning to crawl

My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

At six fifteen the baby woke up at home

 And the crying shook her daddy awake

 At a quarter to seven he made the decision

 He thought he'd never have to make

 Then at eight forty-five that girl came back to life

 In the back seat of a fancy car

 To a world of disgrace and a smile on the face

 Of some stranger from a downtown bar

 At nine o'clock she put the key in the lock

 Just a little too late to explain

 But she took one minute more before she opened the door

 She went over her story again

 Well the child and the man were both long long gone

 And the note said "Goodbye" and that's all

My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

 Oh-O-O-Oh My, my, How far can a little girl fall?