Little white cross on the hill

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1. He was just a tiny tod with eyes that used to glow,

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the angels called him at the age of three.

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Oh, how much I miss him, and if someone had to go,

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why couldn’t it have been me ?

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2. There’s a pain in my breast since they laid him to rest

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‘neath the little white cross on the hill.

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Life is so hard to bear since they buried him there

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‘neath the little white cross on the hill.

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3. The house is so empty without his smiling face,

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I still hear his footsteps running all around the place.

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When our trails had to part, they just buried my heart

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neath the little white cross on the hill.

+ repeat verse 3 as instrumental

4. = verse 3