You Gave Me a Name

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Seventeen with a heart full of holes, No name to my name, just a girl on my own. Then a farmer boy walked down that hall, Steady and true, he saw through it all. Something inside just whispered to me, This is the man I was meant to believe. [Chorus] Oh Billy, you gave me a family, A name and a place I could call my own. Through every storm you have carried me, Forty-three years and you're still my home. You're my comfort, my peace, my everything, The strongest love this heart's ever known. [Verse 2] Up before dawn, home after dark, Dirt on your hands but gold in your heart. Your daddy Joe worked that cotton land, Passed down his lessons, his heart, his hands. Generations rooted deep in the soil, Two little girls and a boy from a life of toil. [Chorus] Oh Billy, you gave me a family, A name and a place I could call my own. Through every storm you have carried me, Forty-three years and you're still my home. You're my comfort, my peace, my everything, The strongest love this heart's ever known. [Bridge] When the darkness came to steal my light, You pulled me up and held me through the night. I lost so much, but I found in you A reason to laugh and to make it through. [Verse 3] Six grandkids chasing whatever they dream, We stand behind them, a family team. You ache from the work but you never complain, Always there for a friend in the rain. With every breath I've got left to give, Billy, you're the reason I live. [Outro] So here's to us and the road we've known, You gave a lost girl a place called home. Oh Billy, forever, just you and me.