Bill Anderson - This Land The Lord And Me lyrics

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...