Walking The Last Mile Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Snow
Walking The Last Mile
Recorded by Hank Snow
Written by Jeff Hess
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Walking the last mile so weary and
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slow
It leads to the gallows from there I don't
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know
One step every min
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ute each minute a
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year
This parting is
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bitter when no friend is
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near
If I had one wish love and that could come
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true
I'd wish I was pardoned and back home with
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you
I'd get on my knees
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love and if you'd
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forgive
No more would I
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hurt you as long as I
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live
(The weight of the world love is crushing my
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soul
It's hard to be tied down in this prison
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hole)
There is one regret
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love that tortures my
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brain
It's that I've been
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careless in causing you
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pain
Walking the last mile with each step a
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prayer
Praying forgiveness from Him way up
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there
Oh please say a prayer
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love for it's my last
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Please pray the great
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Master shows mercy on
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me
Perhaps in the next world on that judgment
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day
I'll find that the Master washed my sins
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away
Then I'll hold my head
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up when my soul is
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free
And rest in your
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arms love through eterni
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Walking The Last Mile?
- The song Walking The Last Mile was sang by Hank Snow.
Who is Hank Snow?
- Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 - December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket" and "The Rhumba Boogie" and famous versions of "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", "Hello Love", as well as other top 10 hits.Snow was an accomplished songwriter whose clear, baritone voice expressed a wide range of emotions including the joys of freedom and travel as well as the anguish of tortured love. His music was rooted in his beginnings in small-town Nova Scotia where, as a frail, 80-pound youngster, he endured extreme poverty, beatings and psychological abuse as well as physically punishing labour during the Great Depression. Through it all, his musically talented mother provided the emotional support he needed to pursue his dream of becoming a famous entertainer like his idol, the country star, Jimmie Rodgers.As a performer of traditional country music, Snow won numerous awards and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The Hank Snow Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, celebrates his life and work in a province where his fans still see him as an inspirational figure who triumphed over personal adversity to become one of the most influential artists in all of country music.
