SIXTEEN YEARS
(Porter Wagoner / Tom Pick)


Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 1973


In a pickup truck we bought in nineteen-sixty-two
And paid each month till it belonged to me and you
The cardboard boxes in the back hold everything we own
Things we've saved for sixteen years to start a brand new home

We're hauling sixteen years of love in cardboard boxes
Sixteen years of laughter, sweat and tears
We've stacked the back with happiness, sadness, love and cheer
Things we've saved together sixteen years

We sold our little dreamhouse on a small six acre farm
And said goodbye to friends we'll miss and fields of golden corn
In our search for city life where pay is big and jobs are fine
Sixteen years of love and tears following behind

We're hauling sixteen years of love in cardboard boxes
Sixteen years of laughter, sweat and tears
We've stacked the back with happiness, sadness, love and cheer
Things we've saved together sixteen years
All the things we've saved for sixteen years



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2020)