Randy Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick, May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina) is an American multiple Grammy Award and Dove Award-winning American country singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Travis was born in Marshville, North Carolina, the second of six children of Bobbie, a textile factory worker, and Harold Traywick, a horse breeder, turkey farmer, and construction business owner.
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AD Oscar was an angel and he used to walk the streets AGE Shoutin' out some prophecy to everyone he'd meet AD He was a local fixture; like a cop out on a beat AE Folks said he'd been shell-shocked long a- -go DF#mE And more than that, no one seemed to know
AD Oscar was a walker, at least four miles twice a day AGE The entire length of main street he'd be shoutin' all the way AD And I had no idea, where he'd heard the things he'd say AE But he was not your normal voice of doom DF#mE It was a happy song, sung slightly out of tune
[Chorus] DE And he'd say, "Everyone will die and go to A heaven. DED And we will all be angels some day-aa-aa. EA And what you are in this world don't count for nothin'. DAGE 'Cause we are only children, we're just lost along the way. DED But we will all be angels some day"
AD Well I worked at the Rialto; I sold tickets at the door AGE And Oscar he'd come by most ev'ry- -day 'bout half past four AD And he'd pay to see some movie that he'd seen ten times before AE But mostly we'd just let him in for free DF#mE And he'd watch five minutes then he'd come and talk to me
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AD Well it's going on ten years now since I left my home town AGE And I went back last summer; for a week I hung a- -round AD I looked out for Oscar; he was nowhere to be found AED Someone said they finally had to com- -mit him and he died F#mE Before they had time to for- -get him
AD Now I'm not about to argue, Oscar's train had jumped the tracks AGE But I'll bet my last dollar on a plain and simple fact AD Oscar never said a word about me behind my back AE And the way the I was raised to under- -stand DF#mE Well, that bone, makes him the better man