Every day I drive to work across Flint River Bridge
A hundred yards from the spot where me and grandpa fished
There's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of Sawmill Road
He'd be there peeling peaches if it was twenty years ago
And what I wouldn't give
To ride around in that old truck with him
If heaven wasn't so far away I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
*duce them to their grandpa Watch them laugh at the way he talked
Find my long lost cousin John The one we left back in Vietnam
Show him a picture of his daughter
now She's a doctor and he'd be proud
Tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
In the rearview mirror we'd all watch him
wave Yeah,
losing them wouldn't be so hard to
take
If heaven wasn't so far away
I'd hug all three of those girls we
lost from the class of ninety-nine
And I'd find my bird dog Bo and take him hunting one more time
I'd ask Hank why he took those pills back in fifty-three
And Janice to sing the second verse of me and Bobby McGee
Sit on a cloud and visit for a while
It'd do me good just to see them smile
If heaven wasn't so far away I'd pack up the kids and go for the day
*duce them to their grandpa Watch them laugh at the way he talked
Find my long lost cousin John The one we left back in Vietnam
Show him a picture of his daughter
now She's a doctor and he'd be proud
Tell him we'd be back in a couple of days
In the rearview mirror we'd all watch him
wave Yeah, losing them wouldn't be so hard to
take
If heaven wasn't so far, if heaven wasn't
so far If heaven wasn't so far away
So far away So far away