He Didn't Have to Be - The Country Music Crew

When a single mom goes

Out on a date with somebody new

And it always winds up being

More like a job interview

My momma used to wonder if

She'd ever meet someone

Who wouldn't find out about me

And then turn around and run

I met the man I call my Dad

When I was five years old

He took my Mom out to a movie

And for once I got to go

A few months later

I remember lying there in bed

I overheard him pop the question and

I prayed that she'd say yes

And then all of a sudden

Oh it seemed so strange to me

How we went from somethings

Missing to a family

Lookin' back all I can say about

All the things he did for me

Is I hope I'm at least half the

Dad that he didn't have to be

I met the girl that's now my

Wife about three years ago

We had the perfect marriage

But we wanted somethin' more

Now here I stand surrounded

By our family and friends

Crowded 'round the nursery

Window as they bring the baby in

And now all of a sudden

Oh it seemed so strange to me

How we've gone from somethings

Missing to a family

Lookin' through the glass

I think about the man that's standin' next to me

And I hope I'm at least half

The Dad that he didn't have to be

And lookin' back all I can say

About all the things he did for me

Is I hope I'm at least half the

Dad that he didn't have to be

Yeah I hope I'm at least half

The Dad that he didn't have to be

Because he didn't have to be

You know he didn't have to be