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Thread #169891 Message #4108275
Posted By: cnd
31-May-21 - 02:48 AM
Thread Name: US Highways (fed and state) and songs about them
Subject: Lyr Add: HEAVEN'S HIGHWAY 66 (Ernest Martin)
Unfortunately, I'm not sure who the credits for this song belong to. I'd assume Ernest Martin. I downloaded it years ago from the internet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to re-find where I downloaded it from. These are the lyrics as I've transcribed them. Note that though Martin has an album released in 1962 with this song as the title song, I believe this is from his 1955 recording with the Norvell Brothers -- it's a little less bluegrassy than the songs I've been able to scrounge up from that album while searching.
Ernest Martin: Heaven's Highway 66
While traveling so many great highways We're bothered with traffic so thick Up there's one road that's not crowded It's the Heaven's Highway 66
CHORUS I'm traveling the highway to heaven I've left the old broad way of sin When the last words are spoken And the Pearly Gates open I'll lay down my cross and go in
Each highway on earth has a number As the prophets have spoken before That 66 books of the Bible Is the number to Heaven's bright shore
CHORUS
There's a mansion that's built up in Heaven John saw it descending one day Prepared and adorned for the people That have traveled this Heaven's highway
CHORUS
God's word is the map to that city The road is prepared and all fixed Do not turn left as you travel This Heaven's Highway 66