If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away-Country Is!

[ti:If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away] [ar:Country Is!] [al:Country Is! An American Parade Of Country Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.28]If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away - Country Is! [00:01.71]Written By：Seaborn Jones/Dallas Davidson/Robert Henry [00:02.93] [00:13.65]Every day I drive to work across [00:17.24]Flint River bridge [00:19.10] [00:19.84]A hundred yards from the spot where me and grandpa fished [00:25.07] [00:26.04]There's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of Sawmill Road [00:31.78] [00:32.35]He'd be there peelin' peaches if it was twenty years ago [00:37.74] [00:40.52]What I wouldn't give [00:43.62] [00:45.31]To ride around in that old truck with him [00:51.05] [00:51.63]If heaven wasn't so far away [00:54.79]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day [00:58.19]Introduce them to their grandpa [01:00.66] [01:01.28]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talked [01:04.42]Find my long lost cousin John [01:07.53]The one we left back in Vietnam [01:10.78]Show him a picture of his daughter now [01:13.91]She's a doctor and he'd be proud [01:16.65] [01:17.18]Tell 'em we'd be back in a couple of days [01:21.71] [01:23.17]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch him wave [01:27.94] [01:29.58]And losing them wouldn't be so hard to take [01:35.31] [01:36.22]If heaven wasn't so far away [01:42.54] [01:45.53]I'd hug all three of those girls we lost [01:48.78]From the class of ninety nine [01:50.89] [01:51.77]And I'd find my bird dog Bo and take him huntin' one more time [01:57.45] [01:58.46]I'd ask Hank why he took those pills back in fifty three [02:03.91] [02:04.79]And Janis to sing the second verse of [02:08.49]Me and Bobby McGee [02:10.13] [02:11.08]Sit on a cloud and visit for a while [02:16.27] [02:17.27]It'd do me good just to see them smile [02:23.95]If heaven wasn't so far away [02:27.08]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day [02:30.41]Introduce them to their grandpa [02:33.45]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talked [02:36.51]I'd find my long lost cousin John [02:39.77]The one we left back in Vietnam [02:43.10]Show him a picture of his daughter now [02:46.20]She's a doctor and he'd be proud [02:49.31]Tell him we'd be back in a couple of days [02:53.89] [02:55.48]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch him wave [02:59.89] [03:01.65]Yeah losing them wouldn't be so hard to take [03:06.93] [03:08.54]If heaven wasn't so far [03:11.60]If heaven wasn't so far [03:14.74]If heaven wasn't so far away so far away so far away