Love Is A Cross You Bear-The Isaacs

[ti:Love Is A Cross You Bear (Big Sky Album Version)] [ar:The Isaacs] [al:Big Sky] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Love Is A Cross You Bear (Big Sky Album Version) - The Isaacs [00:24.34]Deep down in texas [00:26.40]Some years ago [00:27.96] [00:28.51]There was a poor preacher [00:30.76]That I came to know [00:32.71]He'd been doing God's work [00:35.14]For most of his life [00:36.85] [00:37.45]But what he was known for most was his wife [00:41.38] [00:42.02]She was as pretty as she was wild [00:45.94] [00:46.53]She gave him no comfort [00:48.87]She gave him no child [00:51.01]She set him no table [00:53.33]She baked him no bread [00:55.51]And once when I asked him about it he said [00:59.43] [01:00.36]Love is a cross you bear [01:04.20] [01:04.91]A thorny crown you wear [01:08.81] [01:09.47]I ain't no saint I never was [01:13.10] [01:13.65]But brother she knows not what she does [01:17.85] [01:18.49]Love is a cross you bear [01:22.99] [01:46.79]Soon I moved on and [01:48.93]Soon I lost track [01:50.54] [01:51.20]But one night in Denver [01:53.42]It all came back [01:54.85] [01:55.37]In a beautiful church [01:57.39]With a melodious choir [01:59.48] [02:00.14]There he was preaching his brimstone and fire [02:05.25]And then this angel [02:06.43]That I'd seen before [02:08.69] [02:09.43]Came out and joined him [02:10.97]In his holy war [02:13.59]She looked at her husband [02:15.90]And as the bell rang [02:17.85]She lifted her angelic voice up and sang [02:23.01]Love is a cross you bear [02:26.85] [02:27.51]A thorny crown you wear [02:31.36] [02:32.04]Once I was lost but now I'm found [02:36.50]Once I was weak and let love down [02:40.43] [02:41.19]Love is a cross you bear [02:45.56] [02:46.66]As I left that church [02:48.27] [02:48.86]Amazed as can be [02:50.51] [02:51.09]A great revelation [02:53.42]Came unto me [02:54.90] [02:55.65]Of all of the good things [02:58.04]This life is made of [02:59.50] [03:00.02]The best is the sweat from the labor of love [03:04.19] [03:04.97]Love is a cross you bear [03:08.61] [03:09.36]A thorny crown you wear [03:13.24] [03:13.88]Sinner repent and make amends [03:17.63] [03:18.32]Love has been dying for your sins [03:22.35] [03:22.96]Love is a cross you bear [03:27.63]Love is a cross you bear [03:32.26]A thorny crown you wear [03:36.80]Sinner repent and make amends [03:41.04] [03:41.56]Love has been dying for your sins [03:46.01] [03:46.54]Love is a cross you bear