| Song | Closer To Home |
| Artist | Oak Ridge Boys |
| Album | A Gospel Journey |
| The Oak Ridge | |
| Boys – Closer | |
| To Home (Written By John Tirro & Tony Wood) | |
| He’s 68 and brings my morning paper | |
| Each day while it’s dark | |
| Then hustles off to greet folks | |
| At the Highway 9 | |
| Walmart. His daughter flew back in last year | |
| With their two boys, twelve and ten, | |
| Then she skipped town and left him | |
| And his wife to care for them. | |
| CHORUS: It used to be | |
| Superman Johnny | |
| Benson, then | |
| George Jones | |
| But lately | |
| I’ve been findin’ | |
| All my heroes closer to home. | |
| Every time | |
| I see a squad car | |
| A-passin’ by our house | |
| I think of brave hearts behind badges | |
| Ready when a call goes out. | |
| Seems since 9/11 | |
| It’s been on my mind | |
| How they wake up every morning | |
| And put their lives on the line. | |
| CHORUS Got a life, found the lovin’ | |
| Got some children of my own | |
| And some nights | |
| I stand there by their bedside | |
| In the dark alone. | |
| And I think back on my childhood | |
| And the sweet times that | |
| I had Now | |
| I see the sacrifice it took | |
| From my mum and dad. | |
| CHORUS But lately | |
| I’ve been findin’ | |
| All my heroes closer to home. |
| The Oak Ridge | |
| Boys Closer | |
| To Home Written By John Tirro Tony Wood | |
| He' s 68 and brings my morning paper | |
| Each day while it' s dark | |
| Then hustles off to greet folks | |
| At the Highway 9 | |
| Walmart. His daughter flew back in last year | |
| With their two boys, twelve and ten, | |
| Then she skipped town and left him | |
| And his wife to care for them. | |
| CHORUS: It used to be | |
| Superman Johnny | |
| Benson, then | |
| George Jones | |
| But lately | |
| I' ve been findin' | |
| All my heroes closer to home. | |
| Every time | |
| I see a squad car | |
| Apassin' by our house | |
| I think of brave hearts behind badges | |
| Ready when a call goes out. | |
| Seems since 9 11 | |
| It' s been on my mind | |
| How they wake up every morning | |
| And put their lives on the line. | |
| CHORUS Got a life, found the lovin' | |
| Got some children of my own | |
| And some nights | |
| I stand there by their bedside | |
| In the dark alone. | |
| And I think back on my childhood | |
| And the sweet times that | |
| I had Now | |
| I see the sacrifice it took | |
| From my mum and dad. | |
| CHORUS But lately | |
| I' ve been findin' | |
| All my heroes closer to home. |