Closer To Home - The Oak Ridge Boys

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 moved back home last year

With their two boys, twelve and ten

Then she skipped town and left him

And his wife to care for them

It used to be Superman

Johnny Bench and then George Jones

But lately I’ve been finding

All my heroes closer to home

Every time I see a squad car

Or pass a firehouse

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

It used to be Superman

Johnny Bench and then George Jones

But lately I’ve been finding

All my heroes closer to home

I’ve got a life I’m loving

Got some children of my own

And some nights I tuck them in and stand there

In the dark alone

And I think back on my childhood

And the sweet days that I had

Now I see the sacrifice it took

From my mum and dad

It used to be Superman

Johnny Bench and then George Jones

But lately I’ve been finding

All my heroes closer to home

But lately I’ve been finding

All my heroes closer to home