Ways Of This World

I was just a little girl
Peekin' out of my mama’s apron strings
I was just a little girl
But I knew what had to be
It would roll, it would roll
It would roll all over me
I was just a little girl
But I knew what had to be
Easter dresses and choir robes
Ballet slippers and pierced earlobes
I was just a little girl
But I knew the ways of this world
County fairs and church bazaars
Swimmin' pools and muscle cars
I was nothin' but a girl
But I knew the ways of this world
And the years peeled away
Like pages and pages of a novel
Grown men, powerful men
They will fall at my feet to grovel
And they’d roll, they will roll
They will roll all over me
But I am not a little girl
And I know what has to be