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this was recently recorded by bluegrass band Nu Blu on their All the Way cd. here is the demo:

http://tunesmithpro.ning.com/profiles/profile/show?id=bjfm3mi5fxfq

Heavy Cross to Bear

Steven was a medic, serving in Afghanistan
Red cross painted on his helmet, dodging bullets in the sand
He’d risk his life to rescue, soldiers dyin’ in the dust
It was only paint and metal, but to him that helmet was

A heavy cross to bear
For the true and the brave
With courage, light and prayer
Someone will be saved
Though it’s humble and it’s plain
It’s beyond compare
That symbol yet remains
A heavy cross to bear

There’s a one-room country chapel, in the woods of Alabam’
And it’s bid goodbye to heroes, from Japan to Vietnam
Simple cross upon the steeple, forged with hope and faith and steel
‘long as liberty is threatened, then that church will always feel

A heavy cross to bear
For the true and the brave
With courage, light and prayer
Someone will be saved
Though it’s humble and it’s plain
It’s beyond compare
That symbol yet remains
A heavy cross to bear

There’s a hill beside a farmhouse, with a footpath on the side
And a cross among some crabgrass, made of pine and painted white
There’s a widow in the moonlight, and a teardrop epitaph
Dozen roses and some dog-tags, and that hill will always have

A heavy cross to bear
For the true and the brave
With courage, light and prayer
Someone will be saved
Though it’s humble and it’s plain
It’s beyond compare
That symbol yet remains
A heavy cross to bear

Copyright 2010 by Robert George & Cameron Earnshaw