I Loved Her First

I'm a daddy's girl and absolutely love songs about Fathers & Daughters. One year I made my father a video with pictures of him and I from my baby pictures up to my wedding pictures and picutres of us with my first born (a girl!). I set the slideshow of pictures to the songs Butterfly Kisses and a song by Natalie Grant called Always be your Baby. My uncle helped and set it up so my wedding pictures came up at the exact time both songs were talking about weddings. It was wonderful.

Another song I love is Tough Little Boys by Gary Allen. The chorus says "When tough little boys, grow up to be dads, they turn into big babies again."

Anyway, I recently heard this a new song on the radio and have been trying to figure out who sings it. I finally figured it out. Here is the song and the words. I may post the words to some of the other songs I like sometime too. I've linked the titles above to other sites with the lyrics if you are interested.

Someday I want to make a CD for myself and daddy with all the father/daughter songs I love!

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Artist: HEARTLAND
Song Name: I LOVED HER FIRST

Look at the two of you dancing that way

Lost in the moment and each others face

So much in love you're alone in this place

Like there’s nobody else in the world

I was enough for her not long ago

I was her number one

She told me so and she still means the world to me

Just so you know

So be careful when you hold my girl

Time changes everything

Life must go on and I’m not gonna stand in your way

* * *

Chorus:

But I Loved her first

and I held her first

and a place in my heart will always be hers

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

and I prayed that she'd find you someday

but its still hard to give her away

I loved her first

* * *

How could that beautiful woman with you

Be the same freckle face kid that I knew

The one that I read all those fairy tales to

and tucked into bed all those nights

and I knew the first time I saw you with her

It was only a matter of time

* * *

Chorus:

But I Loved her first

and I held her first

and a place in my heart will always be hers

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

and I prayed that she'd find you someday

but its still hard to give her away

I loved her first

* * *

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

Someday you might know what I’m going through

When a miracle smiles up at you

I loved her first…