not planning my days around a tv set paying our bills and staying out of debt that s important to me opening the windows and letting in air holding hands when we re saying a prayer that s important to me chorus 1 having somebody to share my life loving my husbandand being a wife and the very best mother i can be that s important to me telling the truth and being real feeding my family a home cooked meal that s important to me that s important to me planting a garden and watching it grow keeping it country on the radio that s important to me that s important to me chorus 2 always having you to hold being beside you when we grow old and they plant us neath that big oak tree that s important to me believin my dreams will take me somewhere still being myself when i get there that s important to me that s important to me