Interpret:

Randy Travis

Album:

Greatest Hits Volume Two

Songwriters: Shamblin, Allen;



Wore starched white shirts buttoned at the neck

And he'd sit in the shade and watch the chickens peck

And his teeth were gone, but what the heck

I thought that he walked on water



Said he was a cowboy when he was young

He could handle a rope and he was good with a gun

And my mama's daddy was his oldest son

And I thought that he walked on water



If the story was told, only heaven knows

But his hat seemed to me like an old halo

And though his wings, they were never seen

I thought that he walked on water



Then he tied a cord to the end of a mop

And said, "Son, here's a pony, keep her at a trot"

And I'd ride in circles while he laughed allot

Then I'd flop down beside him



And he was ninety years old in sixty-three

And I loved him and he loved me

And Lord, I cried the day he died

'Cause I thought that he walked on water



If the story was told, only Heaven knows

But his hat seemed to me like an old halo

And though his wings, they were never seen

I thought that he walked on water

I thought that he walked on water