twenty-nine and holding

Lyrics

oh, she's tender but she's tough, and still willing to love, if there's a man enough to be her man, but right now her hands are full, fighting back the tears and the wolves, but she keeps smiling just as hard as she can, she's twenty-nine and holding the world on her shoulders, they're all counting on mama, and she ain't about to let them down, there's no time to worry about turning thirty, when you're twenty-nine and holding, the world on you shoulders, yes, the one who she once loved, just didn't have the guts, to be a lover or father or much of a man, yeah, he just had to have his space, so she put him in his place, out in the road with his suitcase in his hand, well, it's the kids and it's the job, it's the kitchen and it's the mop, hey, it's the life of a woman that's on her own, and lord, i just gotta say, that we all ought to be ashamed, if our biggest trouble is just turning old and gray, she's twenty-nine and holding the world on her shoulders