[00:00.00]The Master's Call - Marty Robbins
[00:05.48]When I was but a young man
[00:07.59]I was wild and full of fire
[00:09.55]
[00:10.38]A youth within my teens
[00:12.04]But full of challenge and desire
[00:14.22]
[00:14.94]I ran away from home
[00:16.80]And left my mother and my dad
[00:19.53]I know it grieved them
[00:21.08]So to think their only boy was bad
[00:23.77]
[00:24.56]I fell in with an outlaw band
[00:26.76]Their names were known quite well
[00:29.06]How many times we robbed
[00:31.08]And plundered I could never tell
[00:33.01]
[00:33.58]This kind of sinful livin' leads only to a fall
[00:37.87]
[00:38.54]I learned that much and more the night
[00:41.15]I heard my master call
[00:42.66]
[00:43.28]One night we rustled cattle
[00:45.20]
[00:45.77]A thousand head or so
[00:47.43]
[00:48.09]And started them out on the trail
[00:50.73]That leads to mexico
[00:52.14]
[00:52.80]But a norhtern started blowin'
[00:54.57]
[00:55.21]And lightnin' flashed about
[00:56.92]
[00:57.58]I thought someone was calling me
[01:00.23]I thought I heard a shout
[01:02.56]
[01:03.75]Then at that moment lightning
[01:05.79]Struck not twenty yards from me
[01:07.87]
[01:08.40]And left there was a giant cross
[01:10.99]Where once there was a tree
[01:12.57]
[01:13.14]And this time I knew a heard a voice
[01:15.82]A voice so sweet and strange
[01:17.36]
[01:17.89]A voice that came from everywhere
[01:20.40]A voice that called my name
[01:22.13]
[01:23.96]So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done
[01:28.11]
[01:28.67]I failed to see a thousand head of cattle start to run
[01:32.80]
[01:33.44]The cattle they stampeded
[01:35.22]
[01:35.84]Were running all around
[01:37.47]
[01:38.17]My pony ran but stumbled
[01:40.59]And it threw me to the ground
[01:42.87]I felt the end was nearing
[01:45.38]That death would be the price
[01:47.17]
[01:47.69]When a mighty bolt of lightning
[01:49.99]Showed the face of jesus christ
[01:52.42]And I cried oh lord forgive me
[01:54.87]Don't let it happen now
[01:57.19]I want to live for you alone
[01:59.72]Oh god these I vow words
[02:01.64]
[02:03.32]My wicked past unfolded
[02:05.13]
[02:05.69]I thought of wasted years
[02:07.39]
[02:07.91]When another bolt of lightning
[02:10.16]Killed a hundred head of steers
[02:12.16]
[02:12.69]And the others rushed on by me
[02:14.86]
[02:15.42]And I was left to live
[02:16.95]
[02:17.53]The master had a reason
[02:19.74]Life is his to take and give
[02:21.76]
[02:22.32]A miracle performed that night
[02:24.97]I wasn't ment to die
[02:26.49]
[02:27.05]The dead ones formed
[02:28.31]A barricade least 6 or 7 high
[02:31.28]
[02:31.99]Right behind it there was I
[02:34.45]Afraid but safe and sound
[02:36.14]
[02:36.66]I cried and begged for mercy kneeling
[02:38.93]There upon the ground
[02:40.80]
[02:41.62]A pardon I was granted
[02:43.74]My sinful soul set free
[02:45.62]
[02:46.21]No more to fear the angry waves upon
[02:48.97]Life's stormy sea
[02:50.30]
[02:50.81]Forgiven by the love of god
[02:53.49]A love that will remain
[02:55.55]I gave my life and soul the night
[02:58.60]The saviour called my name