Heart up in the Sky

Well, ol' Joe woke up at a quarter to five
 'Cause the girls needed milkin' or else they'll go dry
 He'd done it for 45 years, so it was no surprise
 'Til he walked outside and seen that heart up in the sky
 Well, it was 40 feet up and it was ten feet wide
 It was pumping like a mad man swept up in the tide
 And when his wife, she came out from the inside
 She fell to her knees and she almost died
 Well, it shined like a quarter in a baby's hand
 On the Fourth of July near the Rio Grande
 It shined like a diamond in a jar of sand
 And it made Joe's cornfield look like it was born again
 I put my heart up in the sky, I pushed it way up high
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?
 I put my heart up in the sky, I can't really tell you why
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?
 Well, he reached for his heart, like to have him a stroke
 And he called for his wife, who thought it was just some kind of joke
 Like when he called the preacher up 'cause the hen's laid triple yokes
 But up in the sky was a heart that was taller than an oak
 I put my heart up in the sky, I pushed it way up high
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?
 I put my heart up in the sky, I can't really tell you why
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?
 Well, the first thing they did was get the paper on the wire
 And they had their son paged, he was a contractor for hire
 And they called their estranged daughter, she fell in love with a man from the Ozark mire
 And a bus pulled up with the entire First Presbyterian choir
 They had a doctor called in from town
 He showed up in a Chevy with a black bag and a frown
 Said there's nothing you could do to bring that heart back down
 It was a healthy heart that old Joe found
 I put my heart up in the sky, I pushed it way up high
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?
 I put my heart up in the sky, I can't really tell you why
 I just wondered what the people'd do
 If they'd see my heart up there in the blue?