[00:13.21]Every day I drive to work across Flint River bridge
[00:19.51]A hundred yards from the spot where me and grandpa fished
[00:24.75]
[00:25.63]There's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of Sawmill Road
[00:31.24]
[00:31.93]He'd be there peelin' peaches if it was twenty years ago
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[00:40.25]And what I wouldn't give
[00:44.86]To ride around in that old truck with him
[00:51.35]If heaven wasn't so far away
[00:54.60]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
[00:58.16]Introduce them to their grandpa
[01:00.90]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks
[01:04.33]I'd find my long lost cousin John
[01:07.39]The one we left back in Vietnam
[01:10.26]Show him a picture of his daughter now
[01:13.51]She's a doctor and he'd be proud
[01:16.88]Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
[01:22.30]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave
[01:29.48]Yeah' and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take
[01:35.78]If heaven wasn't so far away
[01:37.97]I'd hug all three of those girls we lost from the class of '99
[01:51.55]And I'd find my old bird dog Bo and take him huntin' one more time
[01:58.19]I'd ask Hank why he took those pills back in '53
[02:04.49]And Janis to sing the second verse of "Me and Bobby McGee"
[02:10.79]Sit on a cloud and visit for a while
[02:16.78]It'd do me good just to see them smile
[02:22.15]
[02:23.39]If heaven wasn't so far away
[02:26.64]I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
[02:30.20]Introduce them to their grandpa
[02:32.26]Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks
[02:36.50]I'd find my long lost cousin John
[02:39.18]The one we left back in Vietnam
[02:42.55]Show him a picture of his daughter now
[02:45.55]She's a doctor and he'd be proud
[02:48.79]Then tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
[02:54.03]
[02:54.97]In the rear view mirror we'd all watch 'em wave
[03:00.15]
[03:01.27]Yeah' and losing them wouldn't be so hard to take
[03:07.39]If heaven wasn't so far
[03:11.13]If heaven wasn't so far
[03:14.31]If heaven wasn't so far away
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[03:22.11]So far away
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[03:28.35]So far away