# There are many paths through this world of sin, But there's only one I shall travel in; 'Tis the old Cross Road, or the way called ?Straight?? There is just one way to the pearly gate. * Refrain: There is just one way to the pearly gate, To the crown of life and the friends who wait; 'Tis the old Cross Road, or the way called ?Straight?? There is just one way to the pearly gate. # There are some who sneer at the old Cross Road, At the pearly gate and the soul's abode; Yet I mind them not, but, with happy song And assurance sweet, still I press along. # Others risk their souls on some new-made way, Thinking they will come to the gate some day; Oh, may they find out, ere their lives are done, That the old Cross Road is the only one