Enjoy this beautiful rendition of Randy Travis of his hit song “He Walked on Water”. Randy performed this before a live audience at the Grand Ole Opry. This song was written by Allen Shamblin. It was released in April 1990 as the third single from the album No Holdin’ Back. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, and number 1 on Canada’s RPM country chart.

About Randy Travis

Randy Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick in 1959) was born and raised in North Carolina, in a small town outside of Charlotte. He has released 20 studio albums in his singing career and more than 50 of his singles have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. In his first three years of stardom, he sold in excess of 13 million units. The RIAA puts his sales total to date at 18 million units. He is one of the fifteen top solo male country record sellers of all time. Thirteen of his albums are certified gold; of these, eight have gone platinum and four are multi-platinum. Travis has had twenty-nine Top Ten country hits and has taken sixteen songs to the top of Billboard’s country charts. Randy Travis has received many honors, including seven Grammys, nine ACM awards, ten American Music awards, two People’s Choice awards, seven Music City News awards, and eight Dove awards from the Gospel Music Association. Travis was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1986. In 2004, he received his own star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He Walked on Water Lyrics

Randy Travis

He wore starched white shirts buttoned at the neck,
And he’d sit in the shade and watch the chickens peck
And his teeth were gone, but what the heck,
I thought that he walked on water

He said he was a cowboy when he was young
He could handle a rope and he was good with a gun
And my mama’s daddy was his oldest son,
And I thought that he walked on water

If the story was told, only heaven knows
But his hat seemed to me like an old halo
And although his wings, they were never seen
I thought that he walked on water

Then he tied a cord to the end of a mop,
And said, “son, here’s a pony, keep her at a trot”
And I’d ride in circles while he laughed a lot
Then I’d flop down beside him

And he was ninety years old in sixty-three
And I loved him and he loved me
And lord, I cried the day he died,’

Cause I thought that he walked on water

If the story was told, only heaven knows
But his hat seemed to me like an old halo
And though his wings, they were never seen
I thought that he walked on water

Yeah, I thought that he walked on water

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Allen Shamblin

He Walked on Water lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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