Too Heavy to Carry

(Fred Matthews - Alan Miles - Benny Mardones)



Tar paper shanty on an old dirt road

Seeing my mother working made my blood run cold

People making fun made me wonder and doubt

Why the Lord chose our family to have to go without.



I'd shout out in anger a child stricken with fears

When my ma couldn't stand it more she'd dry away my tears

I look back a women and it's fresh in my mind

A girl leaving home trying to find

The answer to a question that I ask every day

How can mama cry so softly and still look up and say.



The Lord never makes a burden too heavy to carry

Never puts a challenge where it can't be won

Some people have to try just a little bit harder

Before their life's work is done.



My strength built of rock from what I thought was sand

Mother was rewarded cause she earned that promised land

See my reflection in the eyes of my little son

He spoke words that told me my life's work was done.



When he said Lord never makes a burden too heavy too carry

And he never puts a challenge where it can't be won

I said now some people have to try just a little bit harder

Before their life's work is done.



I said the good Lord never makes a burden too heavy to carry

He ain't gonna put a challenge where it can't be won...