Song Description

Childhood friends and how quickly some children have to grow up

Lyrics

Jenny
Music and Lyrics by
Stacy Allyn Baker
(verse 1)
Jenny was the sister that I never had
She lived next door
No little girl could ask for more
We used to build our castles out back in the woods
We somehow seemed to have more fun than children should
Jenny always practiced pirouettes
It?s funny how no matter where I go I can?t forget

Jenny should?ve been a dancer

(verse 2)
Jenny?s momma came and carried her away
When she was ten
And never brought her back again
The next time I saw Jenny we were seventeen
And I swear to god she was the prettiest girl I?d ever seen
She was all wrapped up with some boy or another
She went to bed a child and she woke up a mother

(chorus)
But Jenny should?ve been a dancer
All toe shoes and tutus and curls
How the music moved around her
Every time that she would twirl
What I wouldn?t give to get a second chance
To see my Jenny dance

(verse 3)
Jenny packed the kids and moved away
Some time ago
And where she went I?ll never know
Sometimes I get a card with no return address
And I wonder if she?s happy living somewhere else
I?ll always think of Jenny as a child
Fragile as a flower, eight years old and spinning wild

(chorus)
Jenny should?ve been a dancer
All toe shoes and tutus and curls
How the music moved around her
Every time that she would twirl
What I wouldn?t give to get a second chance
To see my Jenny dance

(bridge)
Jenny, smile right through the ache
Dance Jenny
Cause that?s the one thing
That your daddy couldn?t take

(chorus)
Jenny should?ve been a dancer
All toe shoes and tutus and curls
How the music moved around her
Every time that she would twirl
What I wouldn?t give to get a second chance
To see my Jenny dance