[00:00.000] 作曲 : Robbins
[00:05.960]When I was but a young man, I was wild and full of fire
[00:10.620]A youth within my teens, but full of challenge and desire
[00:15.269]I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad
[00:19.764]I know it grieved them so to think their only boy went bad
[00:24.247]I fell in with an outlaw band, their names were known quite well
[00:28.952]How many times we robbed and plundered, I could never tell
[00:33.565]This kind of sinful living, leads only to a fall
[00:38.258]I learned that much and more the night I heard my Master's call
[00:42.681]One night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or so
[00:47.418]And started then out on the trail that leads to Mexico
[00:52.037]When a norther started blowing and lightning flashed about
[00:56.747]I thought someone was calling me, I thought I heard a shout
[01:02.371]Then at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from me
[01:07.175]And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree
[01:11.610]This time I knew I heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strange
[01:16.327]A voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my name
[01:22.182]So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done
[01:26.765]I failed to see the thousand head of cattle start to run
[01:31.476]The cattle they stampeded, were running all around
[01:35.988]My pony ran but stumbled and it threw me to the ground
[01:40.564]I felt the end was near, that death would be the price
[01:45.115]When a mighty bolt of lightning showed the face of Jesus Christ
[01:49.809]And I cried oh Lord forgive me, don't let it happen now
[01:54.453]I want to live for you alone, Oh God these words I vow
[02:00.260]My wicked past unfolded and I thought of wasted years
[02:05.215]When another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steers
[02:09.454]And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live
[02:14.132]The Master had a reason, life is his to take or give
[02:18.892]A miracle performed that night, I wasn't meant to die
[02:23.438]The dead ones formed a barricade nearly six or seven high
[02:28.014]And right behind it there was I, afraid but safe and sound
[02:32.739]I cried in vain for mercy kneeling there upon the ground
[02:37.431]A pardon I was granted, my sinful soul set free
[02:41.968]No more to fear the angry waves upon life's stormy seas
[02:46.547]Forgiven by the love of God, a love that will remain
[02:51.134]I gave my life and so that night the Saviour called my name