Every day I drive to work across Flint River BridgeA hundred yards from the spot where me and Grandpa fishedThere's a piece of his old fruit stand on the side of Sawmill RoadHe'd be there peeling peaches if it was twenty years agoAnd what I wouldn't giveTo ride around in that old truck with himIf heaven wasn't so far awayI'd pack up the kids and go for the dayIntroduce them to their GrandpaWatch them laugh at the way he talkedFind my long lost cousin JohnThe one we left back in VietnamShow him a picture of his daughter nowShe's a doctor and he'd be proudTell him we'd be back in a couple of daysIn the rear view mirror we'd all watch him waveYet losing them wouldn't be so hard to takeIf heaven wasn't so far awayI'd hug all three of those girls we lost from the class of ninety-nineAnd I'd find my bird dog BoAnd take him hunting one more timeAsk Hank why he took those pills back in fifty-threeAnd Janice to sing the second verse of me and Bobby McGeeSit on a cloud and visit for a whileIt'd do me good just to see them smileIf heaven wasn't so far awayI'd pack up the kids and go for the dayIntroduce them to their GrandpaWatch them laugh at the way he talkedFind my long lost cousin JohnThe one we left back in VietnamShow him a picture of his daughter nowShe's a doctor and he'd be proudTell him we'd be back in a couple of daysIn the rear view mirror we'd all watch him waveYet losing them wouldn't be so hard to takeIf heaven wasn't so farIf heaven wasn't so farIf heaven wasn't so far awaySo far awaySo far away