Lauren Alaina - Eighteen Inches Ukulele

Eighteen Inches (Lauren Alaina)
2011


Standard Tuning
Capo on the 2nd fret


Chords:

Cadd9:   x32033
G:       320033 or 320003
D:       xx0232
Em7:     x22033
Bm7:     x23042  ( if you prefer you can replace Bm7 by Bm: x24432 )
Em:      x22000



  Intro:    Cadd9     G     D     x4

 
          Cadd9     G             D       Bm7
  It's about fifteen hundred miles to California 
Cadd9                G          D         
  They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight 
Cadd9         G             D           Em7
  She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning 
            Cadd9       G           D        G    
  Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry

  Cadd9    G    D   x2

  Cadd9        G              D             Bm7
  He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
   Cadd9             G             D          
  She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
        Cadd9            G       D           Em7
  No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
             Cadd9               G          D        G
  The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go


        Cadd9  G       D           Em7
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       Cadd9          G                D           
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
         Cadd9  G    D          Em7              Cadd9      G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D             G     
  Head to your heart


  Cadd9   G    D   x2


          Cadd9         G         D       Bm7
  They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
  Cadd9          G          D     
  She's waiting tables and he's a valet
           Cadd9         G             D           Em7
  They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running 
     Cadd9       G             D              G
  But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved


        Cadd9  G       D           Em7
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       Cadd9          G                D           
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
         Cadd9  G    D          Em7              Cadd9      G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D             G     
  Head to your heart  
 
   Cadd9    G    D

   
   Em                       D                            Cadd9   D   Cadd9
  Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
   Em                       D                     Cadd9  D   Cadd9
  Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months

 
Cadd9           G            D            Em7
  She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
Cadd9       G             D          
  Ready or not their new life's gonna start
Cadd9     G       D     Bm7
  Seven pounds and eighteen inches
             Cadd9          G           D            G    
  The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart

  Cadd9    G    D


        Cadd9  G       D           Em7
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       Cadd9          G                D           (Dsus4)
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
      Cadd9  G           D         Em7
  But thank God for those eighteen inches 
     Cadd9         G             D            G
  The distance it is from your head to your heart

  Cadd9    G    D    x4

  End on Cadd9