Emily Harper

(Lee Thomas Miller&Michael White) Emily sat right next to me Five days a week in the same bus seat For a girl she was pretty cool She wore an old ball cap, hated lace Played a mean shortstop and second base Never missed a day of Sunday school And I never told a soul back then But Emily Harper was my best friend We carved our names on an old oak limb On the bank of the creek where we used to swim A farmer's son and a preacher's only daughter We ran barefoot through the garden gate All afternoon we'd laugh and play 'Til the sun went down on me