[Verse 1]

The first time that I held you, Delilah,
You were smaller than my heart could understand.
I made a quiet promise in the hospital light,
That I'd always be the safe side of your hand.

[Chorus]

Oh my little girl, my little Delilah,
The whole world's gonna know your name someday.
But no matter how tall, no matter how far,
You'll always be my little girl anyway.

[Verse 2]

You taught me how to braid on a Saturday morning,
I taught you how to two-step in the kitchen at night.
The years kept on passing without any warning,
Now you're driving yourself to the Friday night lights.

[Bridge]

One day some boy will think he knows you best,
But I knew you first, sweetheart — I knew you first.

[Final Chorus]

Oh my little girl, my little Delilah,
Go on and live the life I prayed you'd find.
No matter where you go, no matter who you are,
You'll always be my little girl of mine.

[Verse 1]

Summer of sixty-eight, I was just a foolish kid,
Stumbled through the doorway of the diner where you worked.
Forgot the words I practiced for a week about your smile,
But you laughed, and I knew right then, I was a goner, girl.

[Chorus]

Fifty golden years, my darlin',
How the time just flew like sparrows in the sky.
From the diner to the cradle, to the rocking chairs we're in,
I'd do it all again, baby, every laugh and every cry.

[Verse 2]

We buried my old daddy in the fall of seventy-three,
You held my hand the whole way home, didn't say a word.
Raised three babies up on love and macaroni and peas,
Now they're bringing babies of their own here to our yard.

[Bridge]

I'm a slower kind of man than I used to be,
But when you dance across the kitchen, honey, I still see
That waitress in a blue checked dress, fifty years ago,
And I fall in love all over, just like the first time, whoa.

[Final Chorus]

Fifty golden years, my darlin',
Lord, I'd pick you every time, if heaven let me choose.
Through the golden days of summer and the cold December snow,
Every road led me right here — right beside of you.

[Intro]

(Doo-wop, doo-wop, sha-la-la-la...)

[Verse 1]

It was Christmas Eve, nineteen seventy-four,
Paper lanterns on the corner of Franklin and Main.
I was waiting for the bus outside McCallister's door,
When I saw you step out laughing through the softly falling rain.

[Pre-Chorus]

You had snowflakes in your hair, and a ribbon in your curls,
And I forgot how to speak to a pretty ol' girl.

[Chorus]

My blue dress in the snow, my blue dress in the snow,
Oh how my heart went flippin' every time you said hello.
The world was black and white till you walked into my show,
My baby in her blue dress, standing in the snow.

[Verse 2]

Now it's Christmas Eve again, two-thousand and some change,
Our grandkids running circles 'round the tree.
I catch you by the window and the years just rearrange,
'Cause you still look like that angel used to be.

[Bridge]

(Sha-la-la, sha-la-la, my darling, don't you know,)
You're still the prettiest girl I ever seen out in the snow.

[Final Chorus]

My blue dress in the snow, my blue dress in the snow,
Take my hand, we'll dance one more, nice and slow.
Half a century later and I love you even more,
My baby in her blue dress, forever in the snow.