Every Saint - Guy Penrod

He climbed down off that old John Deere wiping sweat and I was wiping tears

He saw me coming across them cotton rows

He was seventy-eight and I was twenty-one

Feeling guilty for who I’d become, and

Then the toughest man I knew pulled me close

He said son no matter what you’ve done, you gotta know

It ain’t that you fall but that you get back up

Life’s more about faith, that it is about luck

Man makes a living by the work he does

But he’ll leave his mark cause of who he was

My boots have walked that road so son remember

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future

See I never knew the cane he raised he was a man of God a man of faith

He said, Let me tell you bout the way I used to be

I run from the law and I’d run shy

I’ve had some bar-room brawls and a shotgun bride

Till one night in a tent revival I hit my knees

It ain’t that you fall but that you get back up

Life’s more about faith, that it is about luck

Man makes a living by the work he does

But he’ll leave his mark cause of who he was

My boots have walked that road so son remember

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future

In the pages of the Good book you can read about liars

Losers cheats and thieves

Who were changed so there’s hope for you and me

It ain’t that you fall but that you get back up

Life’s more about faith, that it is about luck

Man makes a living by the work he does

But he’ll leave his mark cause of who he was

My boots have walked that road so son remember

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future

Every sinner has a future