Once there was an old time preacher
Who had a church on the outskirts of town
You'd never call him my mom and her teacher
He was a shadow right down to the ground
He had a red letter king james bible
It opened up john three sixteen
I first heard him at a summer revival
He rolled up his knees and he started to sing
He said you must confess your sin
He said you must be born again
He preached jesus crucified and risen from the dead
He said you gotta make it right
He said you need to come tonight
The spirit grew stronger
With every single passage he read
I got saved when
I heard what he said he said
He said
Well I'm a member of that little church now
But the preacher died a long time ago
He was a preaching on the street when god called him
Now he's a shoutin' up in heaven I know
We're still moving in the right direction
And we're following the way that he leads
We've got that old time preacher's conviction
And I still remember just what he said
What he said
Oh oh he said you must confess your sin
He said you must be born again
He preached jesus crucified and risen from the dead
He said you gotta make it right
He said you need to come tonight
The spirit grew stronger
With every single passage he read
I got saved when
I heard what that old time hell fire brimstone
Preacher said
I got saved when I heard what he said he said
You better listen to what the preacher say