Key: D
D
Bm
When I was but a young man, I was wild and full of fire
D
Bm
A youth within my teens, but full of challenge and desire
D
Bm
I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad
G
A
Bm
I know it grieved them so to think their only boy went bad
I
G
D
G
D
One night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or so
G
D
Bm
And started then out on the trail that leads to Mexico
G
A
D
G
When a norther started blowing and lightning flashed about
D
G
A
D
I thought someone was calling me, I thought I heard a shout
D
F#m
Then at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from me
G
D
And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree
Bm
Em
This time I knew I heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strange
F#m
Bm
A voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my name
I So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done