Songwriter: Jimmy Robbins Natalie Hemby Nicolle Galyon
Producer: Glenn Worf Chuck Ainlay Frank Liddell
[Verse 1]
Two kids from Tacoma
In a '72 Nova
No pill and barely old enough to drink
Learned the ropes and tested science
Started pentecostal riots
In just five minutes behind the rolling rink
In the backseat brings
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Verse 2]
Between diplomas and the diapers
They become couch quarter finders
Savin' up for a Maytag microwave
Oh but all has been forgiven
On the day the water christen
The best thing that could have happened by mistake
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Bridge]
Well, it's a tried and true equation
Maintains a small town population
That turns us all into a family
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Outro]
Yes, it's always in the water
Babies makin babies
Two kids from Tacoma
In a '72 Nova
No pill and barely old enough to drink
Learned the ropes and tested science
Started pentecostal riots
In just five minutes behind the rolling rink
In the backseat brings
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Verse 2]
Between diplomas and the diapers
They become couch quarter finders
Savin' up for a Maytag microwave
Oh but all has been forgiven
On the day the water christen
The best thing that could have happened by mistake
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Bridge]
Well, it's a tried and true equation
Maintains a small town population
That turns us all into a family
[Chorus]
The American dream on a shoestring
First you grow it, then you show it
Give a good push just like a Brady
Say you'll love 'em till you're eighty
Too soon to be a mother and father
But too late for the alma mater
Yeah, it's always in the water
Babies makin' babies
[Outro]
Yes, it's always in the water
Babies makin babies
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- Platinum (2014)
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- Mama’s Broken Heart
- Tin Man
- Vice
- Little Red Wagon
- Somethin’ Bad
- Bluebird
- The House That Built Me
- Over You
- Runnin’ Just in Case
- Settling Down
- We Should Be Friends
- Gunpowder & Lead
- Tequila Does
- Highway Vagabond
- You Wouldn’t Know Me
- To Learn Her
- Pushin’ Time
- Kerosene
- Keeper of the Flame
- It All Comes Out in the Wash
- Things That Break
- Ugly Lights
- Only Prettier
- Use My Heart