Name: When I Met My Baby
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: I wrote this song as my sister was having her third child. I was convinced it was going to be a girl, but in the middle of my writing, she had a boy. In the end, I kept with the theme and found it to mean more to me and her than it would have meant otherwise.

When I Met My Baby

from It's About Time by Karl Hepler

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I wrote this song as my sister was having her third child. I was convinced it was going to be a girl, but in the middle of my writing, she had a boy. In the end, I kept with the theme and found it to mean more to me and her than it would have meant otherwise.

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When I met my baby
when I met my baby
I saw her in the spring time
lookin’ up at me

I thought I’d buy her flowers
yeah I thought I’d buy her flowers
But I didn’t have a penny
so I picked them by my feet
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When I brought her to the city
I bought her something pretty
her eyes were open wide
just a sittin’ on my knee

Then I brought her to the country
where the air is sweet
to a field of flowers
where she picked one out for me
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Sure enough the wind blows
sure enough the sun shone
my little baby girl grew up
right in front of me

I gave her to another
and she became a mother
now she rears three and
I’m proud as I can be
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When I’m in my winter
she’ll take care of me
I love my little girl
and I know that she loves me

And if I go tomorrow
there ain’t a tear to cry
because I’ll be looking down
at the apple of my eye

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from It's About Time, released April 29, 2014

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Karl Hepler Georgia

A consummate performer and stellar multi-instrumentalist, Karl’s singular presence on stage is surprisingly engaging and always entertaining. He is truly a class act who breaks every expectation of a typical solo acoustic singer-songwriter. Between original works and his own take on existing songs, his style blurs genres, ultimately focused on the traditional mountain music of Appalachia. ... more

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