Tin Roof Heartbeat

Forty winters of steering through the freezing gale

With a worn leather bag and a lamp that never failed

Welcoming the newborns as the morning sun would rise

Answering the midnight calls under frozen heavy skies

Now the dust settles down on the old wooden floor

As he packs up his scale by the heavy office door

Thinking of the quiet lives that he carried through the cold But

there's a light in the gym where the stories unfold

And they sang You never left when we needed you Through the

blinding snow and the fading blue Every hand you held,

every life made brand new Yeah,

you never left when we needed you

(needed you)

Handwritten letters piled high on the stage

Every name a story,

a beautifully lived page The miner who fell,

the girl who fought the fever down

Holding hands together in this little mountain town

Because you never left when we needed you Through the blinding snow

and the fading blue

Every hand you held,

every life made brand new Yeah,

you never left when we needed you

(oh, you never left)

Just a simple country doctor

With a town that loves him true

(thank you)