Little girl from Calabasas
Grown on cornbread and molasses
In the lonely times
Mother died when she was four
Father walked right out the door
And found his future waiting
In a bottle of wine
Though she wasn't beautiful
Being plain was plentiful
with smiles to give away
Growing up was hard to do
in her hand -me -downs
and her worn -out shoes
She walked by on her way to be a woman
She walked by on her way
to be a woman
Longer today than yesterday
When will love
She walked by on her way
to be a woman, a woman
She wasn't good as a carpenter,
the hole in the roof
bothered her
when the wind was rainin' in the bend
So she went and called a man,
that was when
She walked by on her way to be a woman,
she walked by on her way
to be a woman,
Happy today, and yesterday,
love came in to stay.
She'd walk by on her way to be a woman,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
were married a year or so,
he'd carpenter, she would sew,
a bonnet for their baby girl
They would wait and watch her grow,
till the time they would know
She'd walk by on her way
to be a woman
She'd walk by on her way
to be a woman
Woman
She'd walk by on her way
to be a woman
Woman
She'd walk by on way to be a woman
Woman
She'd walk by on way to be a woman you