SHE'S TURNING 50 TODAY
(Liz Hengber / Tommy Lee James / Reba McEntire)

Reba McEntire - 2009




Her husband left on Saturday
For a woman that was half her age
Sunday she just stayed in bed
With the covers pulled over her head

But on Monday mornin' she woke up
And loaded up her pick-up truck
Took one last look at her old life
Then hit the gas and said goodbye
In her faded jeans and her old baseball cap
All she knows for sure, she ain't comin back

This isn't how she thought she'd ever spend this day
Sitting behind the wheel on the interstate
Forty was quite alright
But she's changing roads tonight
And its such a bittersweet way to celebrate
She's turnin' fifty today

She left that Oklahoma town
The only world she had known till now
And memories of those twenty years
She watched them in that rear-view mirror fade away
Oh, but thats all right
Yeah, this could be the time of her life

This isn't how she thought she'd ever spend this day
Sitting behind the wheel on the interstate
Forty was quite alright
But she's changing roads tonight
And it's such a bittersweet way to celebrate
She's turnin' fifty today

Oh, her windows are down
And the wind blows her hair
Where she goes, could be anywhere

(Instrumental Break)

Forty was quite alright
But she's changin' roads tonight
Tommorrow's a mystery
Oh, and she can't wait
She's turnin' fifty
She's turnin' fifty
Ooh, she's turnin' fifty today


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2010)