Travelin' down a lonely highway I knew not where the road would end   Not a penny in my pocket all alone without a friend   Met a lad while on my travel tryin' hard to play the game   Though his legs were very very crippled and he couldn't even speak his name   But he smiled in understanding though life to him had been so unkind   As I watched I bowed in sorrow oh Lord Thy burdens are greater than mine   I can speak my name aloud make my way among the crowd   Yes Thy burdens are greater than mine      In a little country village I met a lad and he was blind   As I helped him across the highway   I cried oh Lord Thy burdens are much greater than mine   I can see the light of day and I need not feel my way   Yes Thy burdens are greater than mine   Just by chance I passed a graveyard saw a young man kneeling there   In his hands he held some roses on his lips I saw a prayer   On the thomb these words were written' her soul is God's her mem'ry mine   As I watched I cried in sorrow oh Lord I see Thy burdens are greater than mine