An American Family (A Gospel Journey Album Version)-The Oak Ridge Boys

[ti:An American Family (A Gospel Journey Album Version)] [ar:The Oak Ridge Boys] [al:A Gospel Journey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]An American Family (A Gospel Journey Album Version) - The Oak Ridge Boys [00:19.51]Worked all his life in the rail yards [00:22.69] [00:23.81]Summer heat winter cold [00:27.30] [00:27.99]He sits by the fire now he's retired [00:32.46]But he don't really feel all that old [00:36.10] [00:37.58]She comes in from the kitchen [00:40.72] [00:41.43]And sits on the arm of his chair [00:44.83] [00:46.05]He looks up and says hey lady I love you [00:50.33]Runs his fingers through her hair [00:55.24] [00:56.73]And there's a picture on the wall of Jesus in the garden [01:03.05] [01:05.97]It's been there since they got the house in fifty-three [01:11.66] [01:16.27]Hey they ain't no big deal whatever go down in history [01:23.47] [01:25.06]It's just a little story of an American family [01:32.27] [01:35.72]She waited for him in world war two [01:39.67] [01:40.29]He fought the European campaign [01:44.42] [01:45.12]Their son John spent two years in nam [01:49.31]That war it wasn't the same [01:53.32] [01:54.16]Billy's out in L A he's a lawyer now [01:58.33]They worry he's so far away [02:02.02] [02:03.21]Jeannie got married and lives here in town [02:07.13]She's coming over with the kids today [02:10.93] [02:13.74]And there's a picture on the wall of Jesus in the garden [02:20.05] [02:22.85]It's been there since they got the house in fifty-three [02:28.94] [02:33.24]Hey there ain't no big deal whatever go down in history [02:40.42] [02:42.04]It's just a little story of an American family [02:49.32] [02:53.55]But the whole world is different now [02:56.39] [02:57.87]Blood's been spilled on our shores [03:01.72]In hard times we pull together [03:04.96] [03:06.91]That's what a family's for [03:12.68] [03:13.90]Hey there ain't no big deal [03:16.36] [03:17.63]It's written in our history [03:21.17] [03:22.46]We're all part of the story of an American family [03:30.06] [03:31.45]We're all part of the story of an American family