Marty Robbins - The Master's Call Lyrics
When I was but a young man,I was wild and full of fireA youth within my teens, but full of challenge and desireI ran away from home and left my mother and my dadI know it grieved them so to think their only boy went badI fell in with an outlaw band, their names were known quite wellHow many times we robbed and plundered, I could never tellThis kind of sinful living, leads only to a fallI learned that much and more the night I heard my Master's callOne night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or soAnd started then out on the trail that leads to MexicoWhen a norther started blowing and lightning flashed aboutI thought someone was calling me, I thought I heard a shoutThen at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from meAnd left there was a giant cross where once there was a treeThis time I knew I heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strangeA voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my nameSo frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd doneI failed to see the thousand head of cattle start to runThe cattle they stampeded, were running all aroundMy pony ran but stumbled and it threw me to the groundI felt the end was near, that death would be the priceWhen another bolt of lightning showed the face of Jesus ChristAnd I cried oh Lord forgive me, don't let it happen nowI want to live for you alone, Oh God these words I vowMy wicked past unfolded and I thought of wasted yearsWhen another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steersAnd the others rushed on by me and I was left to liveThe Master had a reason,life is his to take or giveA miracle performed that night, I wasn't meant to dieThe dead ones formed a barricade nearly six or seven highAnd right behind it there was I, afraid but safe and soundI cried in vain for mercy kneeling there upon the groundA pardon I was granted, my sinful soul set freeNo more to fear the angry waves upon life's stormy seasForgiven by the love of God, a love that will remainI learned that much and more the night the Saviour called my name
