At sixteen she quit high school to   make her fortune in the promised land   She got a job behind the counter in an   all night hamburger stand   She wrote faithfully home to mama   "Now mama don't you worry none"   From small things, mama   Big things one day come      It was late one Friday he pulled in   out of the dark   He was tall and handsome; first she   took his order, then she took his heart   They bought a house up on the hillside   Where little feet soon would run   From small things, mama   Big things one day come      BRIDGE:   Oh but love is fleeting   it's sad but true   But when your heart is beating   You don't wanna hear the news   She packed her bags   and with a Wyomie County real estate man   She ran down to Tampa   In and "El Dorado Grande"   She wrote back home, "Dear Mama   Life is just heaven in the sun   From small things, mama   Big things one day come"      Well she shot him dead   On a sunny Florida road   When they caught her all she said   Was she couldn't stand the way he drove      Back home lonesome Johnny   Prays for his baby's parole   He waits on the hillside   Where the Wyomie waters roll   At his feet and almost grown now   A blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son   Well from small things, mama   Big things one day come   Well from small things, mama   Big things one day come