Everybody's Favorite Little Girl — A radiant adult woman greets neighbors at a bright Central Valley block party beneath papel picado, orchard branches and sunlit music

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Everybody's Favorite Little Girl

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A musician remembers someone whose unexpected arrival offered more affection than he had dared to ask for. Warnings from others, emotional turmoil and nights spent wandering downtown complicate that devotion. Her voice on a club microphone still draws him back, leaving him caught between another chance at love and another painful fall.

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Lyrics

Everybody's Favorite Little Girl

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE LITTLE GIRL

She came into my life when I left the back door open
She asked for nothing in return, and gave me more than I was hopin’
I fell in Love with her more than anyone in this world
Yeah, she's Everybody's Favorite Little Girl
I've been around the World a time or two
Long before I fell in Love with you
I was always bon vivant until we closed the restaurant
But not before you told me you'd be true

I tell you that I didn't know what it was that I should do
A lot of people told me I should run away from you
I would smile and say please do not tell me what to do
I'd be gone for a while, and love was tearing me in two
Why did I believe this time would be so different
I'd listen to the voices deep inside my instrument
It doesn't really matter that love tore apart my world
You're Everybody's Favorite Little Girl

It was sometime after Midnight, I was walkin’ way Downtown
I'd been walkin’ since before the setting Sun went down
People have a way of talkin’ while they're lookin’ at the ground
A lot of them have left their Souls down at the lost and found
I myself have found a way to always get around
If you're comin’ up behind me, you had better slow it down
People gather all around me, I feel like I'm gonna drown
But you can always find me when the Sun goes down

You can find me after Midnight in a Club Downtown
If you don't know where it is, then get a cab to bring you down
My Baby’s on the microphone, burnin’ down the Avalon
I never figured how to leave well enough alone
She can set my Heart on fire when I'm frozen to the bone
I know when she is home alone, cuz I can call her on the phone
If I can only leave it all alone, I’ll get a lot more than a dial tone
Baby, I believe it's time to roll away the stone

I got one more chance, I'm gonna try to get it through
I was never one for romance till I fell in Love with you
I was working on the swing shift, I got off around 2:00
I had really kicked it right before I met you
I was flyin’ way up high until I fell into the ocean
I thought I’s gonna die, I was chokin’ with emotion
But somewhere in the Sky, the Sun was shinin’ on the World
And I Love Everybody’s Little Girl
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