strong beautiful woman oh so dont let the world get you down look within yourself and remember who you are ten years old in braids and skirts im flying down the hill down the street to grandmas house i step inside her world first shed hold me feed me scold me patiently shed heed my moaning then shed sit me down and tell me this youll be a strong beautiful woman and i wont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who carried you forth youll be a strong beautiful woman and i wont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who you are twenty six and leading the band the troubadour traveling show working in a world of men broken hearted and alone i lift my head up just long enough to cease self pitying and doubt i feel her spirit with me now you are a strong beautiful woman so dont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who carried you forth you are a strong beautiful woman so dont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who you are decades come and decades go the thirties forties on it goes seems im always holding on to this you are a strong beautiful woman so dont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who carried you forth you are a strong beautiful woman so dont let the world let you down look within yourself and remember who you are