Old set of lyrics

Hi I'm new to this forum.

I used to write both my words and music together, but I found some old lyrics I wrote once when I was away for the weekend without my guitar.
I wrote the lyrics to the metre of an obscure song by someone else I had on cassette ( told you it was old), and I could never write a satisfactory tune for it when I got home.
The only way I could ever write was either with my partner or myself doing words and music together.

It's kind of a country ballad

Here it is

I couldn’t quite believe it when I heard the news
That I would be a father before the year was thru
A fine example I’d be for a daughter or a son
You wouldn’t dare to tell them half the things I’ve done

I’ve lived out on the borders of respectability
Doing things you wouldn’t dream of were commonplace for me
(second half of verse missing)

Chorus
And there she is my darlin’, crying ‘cause she can’t fit in her clothes
Our love, at first a trickle, is now a riverflow
But who’s to say I can’t shed the old life that I had
And who’s to say that I can’t be a dad

I always liked a few of those lines