This Land The Lord And Me — текст песни (Bill Anderson)

I never knew my mother and the closest that I came
Was a picture that my daddy showed to me
When he held it in two calloused hands and told me son don`t cry
This is how the Lord intended things to be
Daddy told me mom grew weaker on the night that I was born
How she sufferend and the doctor didn`t come
And when daddy told his Maker Lord if it be Thy will please take her
How the good Lord took his wife and gave a son
As a kid I watched my daddy carve a living from the land
Then when nighttime came he held me on his knee
And prayed the Lord would let him live till I became a man
My daddy loved this land the Lord and me
Now I`ve been through a war where many died and never got a scratch
And enough of dad rubbed off on me to know how I came back
I`m a living proof the man upstairs still lives and cares and answers
The prayers of the man who loved this land the Lord and me