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Eb _ _ Oooooh _ _ .
When I was but a young man, I was wild and full of fire.
A youth within my teens but full
Cm of challenge and desire.
Eb I ran away from home and left my mother
Cm and my
Ab dad.
I know it grieved
Bb them so to think
Cm their only boy was bad.
I fell in with an outlaw band their names were known quite well.
How many times we robbed and plundered I could never tell.
Eb This kind of sinful living
Bb Ab leads only to a fall.
I learned that much
Bb and more the night
Gm I heard my
Cm master call.
Ab One night we
Eb rustled cattle,
Ab a thousand head
Eb or so.
Ab And started them
Eb out on the trail
Cm that leads to Mexico.
Fm But a norther
Bb started blowin'
Eb and
Bb lightning flashed about.
I thought someone
Ab was calling me,
Gm I thought I
Eb heard a shout.
Then at that moment lightning struck
Gm not twenty yards from me.
Ab And left there was a giant
Eb cross, for once there was a tree.
Bb And this
Cm time I knew I heard a voice,
Fm a voice so sweet and strange.
Eb A voice that came from everywhere,
Cm a voice that called my name.
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Eb So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done.
I failed to see the thousand head
Cm of cattle start to run.
Eb The cattle they stampeded were running all around.
Fm My pony ran
Bb but stumbled
Cm and it threw me to the ground.
Ab I felt the end
Eb was near,
Ab that death would be the price.
When a mighty
Eb bowl of lightning
Cm showed the face of Jesus Christ.
Ab And I cried, oh Lord
Bb forgive me,
Eb don't let it
Bb happen now.
Eb I want to
Ab live for you
Eb alone, oh God these words I vow.
_ My wicked past unfolded,
Gm I thought I've wasted years.
Ab When another bowl of lightning
Eb killed a hundred head of steers.
Cm And the others rushed on by me
Fm and I was left to live.
Eb The master had a reason,
Cm life is his to take or give.
Eb A miracle preformed that night, I wasn't
Cm meant to die.
The
Eb dead ones formed a barricade, at least
Cm six or seven high.
Eb.
Right behind it there was I, afraid but
Cm safe and sound.
I
Ab cried and
Bb begged for mercy,
Cm kneeling there upon the ground.
A
Eb pardon I was granted,
Cm my sinful soul set free.
Ebm No more to fear the angry
Cm waves, upon life's stormy sea.
Eb.
Forgiven by the love of
G God, a love that
Cm will remain.
I
Ab gave my
Bb life and soul the night
Cm the Savior called my name.
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