Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine-Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys

[ti:Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine] [ar:Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys [00:06.95]Travelin' down a lonely highway [00:12.46]I knew not where the road would end [00:16.22] [00:18.41]Not a penny in my pocket [00:21.59] [00:23.66]All alone without a friend [00:27.83] [00:29.14]In a little country village [00:33.20] [00:34.43]I met a man and he was blind [00:38.71] [00:40.30]As I helped him cross the highway [00:44.36] [00:45.00]Oh Lord [00:46.32]I cried his burdens are greater than mine [00:50.41] [00:51.63]I can see the light of day [00:54.32] [00:54.84]I need not feel my way [00:56.77] [00:57.52]Yes thy burdens are greater than mine [01:01.01] [01:03.81]Met a lad while on my travel [01:06.91] [01:08.45]Tryin' hard to play the game [01:14.17]Though his leg was very crippled [01:19.58]And he could not speak his name [01:23.21] [01:25.15]Yet he smiled in understandin' [01:28.71] [01:30.76]Though life to him had been unkind [01:34.36] [01:36.39]And as I watched I cried in sorrow [01:40.37] [01:41.28]Oh Lord [01:42.29] [01:42.93]I see his burdens are greater than mine [01:45.89] [01:47.52]I can speak my name aloud [01:49.75] [01:50.47]Make my way among the crowd [01:53.18]Yes his burdens are greater than mine [01:56.55] [01:58.60]Just by chance I passed a graveyard [02:02.54] [02:03.82]I saw a young man kneelin' there [02:07.96] [02:09.67]In his hand there were some roses [02:13.43] [02:15.21]On his lips there was a prayer [02:19.93] [02:20.70]On a stone these words were written [02:24.77] [02:26.01]'Your soul is God's your memory mine' [02:30.19] [02:31.89]And as I watched I cried in sorrow [02:35.57] [02:36.37]Oh Lord [02:37.65]I see his burdens are greater than mine [02:41.02] [02:42.57]And as I watched I cried in sorrow [02:48.52]Oh Lord [02:49.54]I see his burdens are greater than mine