《The Master’s Call》歌词

[00:00:00] The Master's Call - Butch Hammons

[00:00:05] When I was but a young man

[00:00:06] I was wild and full of fire

[00:00:09] A youth within my teens

[00:00:11] But full of challenge and desire

[00:00:13] I ran away from home

[00:00:15] And left my mother and my dad

[00:00:17] I know it grieved them

[00:00:19] So to think their only boy went bad

[00:00:22] I fell in with an outlaw band

[00:00:25] Their names were known quite well

[00:00:27] How many times we robbed and plundered

[00:00:29] I could never tell

[00:00:31] This kind of sinful living

[00:00:33] Leads only to a fall

[00:00:35] I learned that much and more the night

[00:00:38] I heard my Master's call

[00:00:40] One night we rustled cattle

[00:00:42] A thousand head or so

[00:00:44] And started then out on the trail that leads to Mexico

[00:00:49] When a norther started blowing

[00:00:51] And lightning flashed about

[00:00:53] I thought someone was calling me

[00:00:55] I thought I heard a shout

[00:00:59] Then at that moment lightning struck

[00:01:01] Not twenty yards from me

[00:01:03] And left there was a giant cross

[00:01:05] Where once there was a tree

[00:01:07] This time I knew I heard a voice

[00:01:10] A voice so sweet and strange

[00:01:12] A voice that came from everywhere

[00:01:15] A voice that called my name

[00:01:19] So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done

[00:01:23] I failed to see the thousand head of

[00:01:26] Cattle start to run

[00:01:28] The cattle they stampeded were running all around

[00:01:32] My pony ran but stumbled

[00:01:34] And it threw me to the ground

[00:01:37] I felt the end was near that death

[00:01:39] Would be the price

[00:01:41] When another bolt of lightning

[00:01:43] Showed the face of Jesus Christ

[00:01:45] And I cried oh Lord forgive me

[00:01:48] Don't let it happen now

[00:01:50] I want to live for you alone

[00:01:52] Oh God these words I vow

[00:01:55] My wicked past unfolded

[00:01:58] And I thought of wasted years

[00:02:00] When another bolt of lightning

[00:02:02] Killed a hundred head of steers

[00:02:04] And the others rushed on by me

[00:02:07] And I was left to live

[00:02:09] The Master had a reasonlife is his to take or give

[00:02:15] A miracle performed that night I wasn't meant to die

[00:02:20] The dead ones formed a barricade

[00:02:22] Nearly six or seven high

[00:02:24] And right behind it there was I afraid

[00:02:27] But safe and sound

[00:02:29] I cried in vain for mercy

[00:02:31] Kneeling there upon the ground

[00:02:35] A pardon I was granted my sinful soul set free

[00:02:40] No more to fear the angry waves

[00:02:42] Upon life's stormy seas

[00:02:44] Forgiven by the love of God a love

[00:02:47] That will remain

[00:02:49] I learned that much and more the night

[00:02:51] The Saviour called my name