I Wish I Could Have Been There

When our baby Kate was born it was the biggest day of my life

Lying there, little bows in her hair in the loving arms of my wife

I was the proudest papa in the USA

Makin' a living on the road somewhere, a thousand miles away

It was a happy day, but kinda sad

I wish I coulda been there, I wish I coulda been there

I wish I coulda been there for that

Little Bobby hit his first home run

He was the hero of the hometown crowd

Two to one, it was a winning run

Everybody was cheering loud

And, momma, she would smile and say

"And he's a chip off of the old block"

But I was on the road somewhere

Between Memphis and Little Rock

It was a happy day, but kinda sad

I wish I coulda been there, I wish I coulda been there

I wish I coulda been there for that

Now Bobby and Kate are all grown up and moved away

They stay in touch, we're proud of the two good kids we raised

And it's hard to believe we're celebrating our twenty-fifth year today

This party's nice, but the kids aren't here

At least they called to say

Congratulations, mom and dad

I wish we could have been there, I wish we could have been there

I wish we could have been there for that

It was a happy day, but kinda sad

I wish they coulda been there, I wish they coulda been there

I wish they coulda been there for that