Amy Grant

Songwriter: Jesse Winchester

It's a cold, cold world
That we walk in through
Lay down the burden of your heart
But it's warm as toast
Walking two by two
Lay down the burden of your heart

Lay down the burden of your heart
I know you'll never miss it
Show your Daddy where it hurts
And let your Daddy lift it

It's a fine, fine line
Betwixt love and hate
Why, it's tough to tell the two apart
But you know it's love
That He offers you
Lay down the burden of your heart

Lay down the burden of your heart
I know you'll never miss it
Ohh-ohh, show your Daddy where it hurts
And let your Daddy lift it

Lay down the burden of your heart
I know you'll never miss it
Ohh-ohh, show your Daddy where it hurts
And let your Daddy lift it

Ohh-ohh, show your Daddy where it hurts
And let your Daddy lift it

By the time Amy Grant was nineteen, she was Contemporary Christian music’s most celebrated singer. Grant grew up in the Church of Christ where she sang for God two nights a week. As a teen, she decided to pursue a career in music, writing her first song while attending devotional meetings at her high school.

Grant recorded a demo while working as an intern at a recording studio and the owner was so impressed he signed her to his own label and released her first album Amy Grant in 1977. It spawned three top 10 songs on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart.

The following year, Grant began touring while balancing college studies. Her second album My Father’s Eyes was released in April 1979. At its record release party, she met future first husband gospel singer Gary Chapman. He’d written its title track, and it would become her first of many Christian Songs Chart-toppers. Her third album Never Alone came out in 1981 and features the #3 Christian Songs hit “Look What Has Happened To Me”.

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My Father’s Eyes

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My Father’s Eyes (1979)

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