Sherry

We were chalking up the cue sticks when I finally caught your eye

Lining up a corner shot, letting that cue ball fly

The folks around the pool hall said we were just a phase

Give it six months, they told us, and we'd go our separate ways

Now it's thirty-six years of marriage, standing side by side

Through the smooth and rocky stretches of this long and heavy ride

I can't do the physical things I always used to do

But my love just grows much deeper, Sherry, just for you

Nineteen years ago, the highway took a bitter toll

That eighteen-wheeler accident tried to break my soul

When I lost the life I knew, you didn't walk away

You just stepped right up to care for me, each and every day

Now it's thirty-six years of marriage, standing side by side

Through the smooth and rocky stretches of this long and heavy ride

I can't do the physical things I always used to do

But my love just grows much deeper, Sherry, just for you

I wish that I could lift the weight the way I did back then

But you became my steady rock through the hard times we've been in

My body might be broken, and my steps are getting slow

But the fire inside my heart for you is the strongest thing I know

Yeah, it's thirty-six years of marriage, standing side by side

Through the smooth and rocky stretches of this long and heavy ride

I can't do the physical things I always used to do

But my love just grows much deeper, Sherry, just for you

More than any pool hall promise, my heart belongs to you