Story Behind the Song
Players: electric guitar Bill McDermott & Byrd Burton; acoustic guitar Tim Thompson; drums Brian Fullen; bass Don Kerce; keys Dennis Wage; engineered by Bill McDermott; recorded at Dog Den Studios, Nashville
Lyrics
OH WELL
Once she was size six
Couple kids later
She can't seem to work off those pounds
Natural blonde then
Hair so perfect
Now her roots are a giveaway brown
Big change, these days, barely time to fix her face
Used to lounge on the phone and paint her toe nails
Oh well, (she says) guess I'll never see that again
Oh well, (she says) can't tell what'll be going next
Doing what she can with what she has
Knowing that this too shall pass
Lose some, win some, oh well, oh well
Working nine to five
A single parent
PTA, little league, the zoo, the park
I can't get over
How she handles all that
And still turns heads getting out of her car
Up at dawn, beds made, lunches to fix yet
No more clubbing or sleep-in weekends
Oh well, (she says) guess I'll never see that again
Oh well, (she says) can't tell what'll be going next
Doing what she can with what she has
Knowing that this too shall pass
Lose some, win some, oh well, oh well
That girl's so right that life's never the way it's planned
When things get really crazy
I hope I'll be like her and laugh
Oh well, (I'll say) guess I'll never see that again
Oh well, (I'll say) can't tell what'll be going next
Doing what I can with what I have
Knowing that this too shall pass
Lose some, win some, get up, get down, oh well oh well
Oh well, oh well
Joyce Harrison © Luvu Luvu Music, ASCAP
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