If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away-American Country Hits

[ti:If Heaven Wasn't so Far Away] [ar:American Country Hits] [al:30 Number 1 Country Hits, Vol 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away - American Country Hits [00:13.87]Every day I drive to work across [00:17.49]Flint River bridge [00:19.03] [00:20.00]A hundred yards from the spot [00:22.30] [00:22.81]Where me and grandpa fished [00:24.89] [00:26.15]There's a piece of his old fruit [00:28.32]Stand on the side of Sawmill Road [00:31.40] [00:32.54]He'd be there peelin' peaches [00:35.02]If it was twenty years ago [00:37.72] [00:40.78]And what I wouldn't give [00:43.02] [00:45.51]To ride around in that old truck with him [00:49.06] [00:51.88]If heaven wasn't so far away [00:54.17] [00:55.16]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day [00:58.12]Introduce them to their grandpa [01:01.01]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks [01:03.71] [01:04.59]I'd find my long lost cousin John [01:06.95] [01:07.58]The one we left back in Vietnam [01:09.89] [01:10.83]Show him a picture of his daughter now [01:13.45] [01:13.96]She's a doctor and [01:15.67]He'd be proud [01:16.94]Then tell him we'd be [01:18.84]Back in a couple of days [01:20.83] [01:23.34]In the rear view mirror [01:25.19]We'd all watch 'em wave [01:27.16] [01:29.68]Yeah and losing them [01:31.03]Wouldn't be so hard to take [01:34.04] [01:36.42]If heaven wasn't so far away [01:39.33] [01:45.56]I'd hug all three of those girls [01:48.08]We lost from the class of '99 [01:50.55] [01:51.77]And I'd find my bird dog Bo [01:54.10]And take him huntin' one more time [01:57.09] [01:58.48]I'd ask Hank why he took [02:00.84]Those pills back in '53 [02:02.56] [02:04.91]And Janis to sing the second verse of [02:08.66]"Me and Bobby McGee" [02:09.88] [02:11.20]Sit on a cloud and visit for a while [02:14.42] [02:17.27]It'd do me good just to see them smile [02:21.34] [02:23.95]If heaven wasn't so far away [02:26.27] [02:27.06]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day [02:30.09] [02:30.60]Introduce them to their grandpa [02:32.71] [02:33.30]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks [02:36.00] [02:36.67]I'd find my long lost cousin John [02:39.24] [02:39.83]The one we left back in Vietnam [02:42.12] [02:42.92]Show him a picture of his daughter now [02:46.13]She's a doctor and he'd be proud [02:49.08]Then tell him we'd be back [02:51.76]In a couple of days [02:53.23] [02:55.49]In the rear view mirror [02:57.20]We'd all watch 'em wave [02:59.24] [03:01.77]Yeah and losing them [03:03.60]Wouldn't be so hard to take [03:06.30] [03:08.56]If heaven wasn't so far [03:10.51] [03:11.56]If heaven wasn't so far [03:13.88] [03:14.96]If heaven wasn't so far away [03:17.92] [03:22.53]So far away [03:24.70] [03:28.87]So far awayyyyyy