The Master's Call-Butch Hammons

[ti:The Master's Call] [ar:Butch Hammons] [al:After They Pulled the Nails ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Master's Call - Butch Hammons [00:05.33]When I was but a young man [00:06.92]I was wild and full of fire [00:09.13]A youth within my teens [00:11.00]But full of challenge and desire [00:13.02] [00:13.56]I ran away from home [00:15.14]And left my mother and my dad [00:17.41] [00:17.98]I know it grieved them [00:19.64]So to think their only boy went bad [00:22.08] [00:22.60]I fell in with an outlaw band [00:25.00]Their names were known quite well [00:26.49] [00:27.05]How many times we robbed and plundered [00:29.36]I could never tell [00:30.42] [00:31.24]This kind of sinful living [00:33.42]Leads only to a fall [00:35.36] [00:35.95]I learned that much and more the night [00:38.46]I heard my Master's call [00:40.30]One night we rustled cattle [00:42.09] [00:42.62]A thousand head or so [00:43.98] [00:44.55]And started then out on the trail that leads to Mexico [00:48.25] [00:49.25]When a norther started blowing [00:50.83] [00:51.38]And lightning flashed about [00:52.91] [00:53.61]I thought someone was calling me [00:55.97]I thought I heard a shout [00:58.58] [00:59.32]Then at that moment lightning struck [01:01.64]Not twenty yards from me [01:03.61]And left there was a giant cross [01:05.80]Where once there was a tree [01:07.95]This time I knew I heard a voice [01:10.49]A voice so sweet and strange [01:12.20] [01:12.74]A voice that came from everywhere [01:15.01]A voice that called my name [01:17.79] [01:19.06]So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done [01:23.69]I failed to see the thousand head of [01:26.15]Cattle start to run [01:27.61] [01:28.18]The cattle they stampeded were running all around [01:32.57]My pony ran but stumbled [01:34.79]And it threw me to the ground [01:37.09]I felt the end was near that death [01:39.93]Would be the price [01:41.45]When another bolt of lightning [01:43.39]Showed the face of Jesus Christ [01:45.84]And I cried oh Lord forgive me [01:48.02]Don't let it happen now [01:49.84] [01:50.35]I want to live for you alone [01:52.68]Oh God these words I vow [01:54.55] [01:55.83]My wicked past unfolded [01:58.14]And I thought of wasted years [02:00.37]When another bolt of lightning [02:02.36]Killed a hundred head of steers [02:04.16] [02:04.76]And the others rushed on by me [02:07.07]And I was left to live [02:08.65] [02:09.18]The Master had a reasonlife is his to take or give [02:13.19] [02:15.96]A miracle performed that night I wasn't meant to die [02:19.91] [02:20.46]The dead ones formed a barricade [02:22.60]Nearly six or seven high [02:24.91]And right behind it there was I afraid [02:27.59]But safe and sound [02:29.27]I cried in vain for mercy [02:31.30]Kneeling there upon the ground [02:33.22] [02:35.94]A pardon I was granted my sinful soul set free [02:40.38]No more to fear the angry waves [02:42.73]Upon life's stormy seas [02:44.82]Forgiven by the love of God a love [02:47.55]That will remain [02:49.11]I learned that much and more the night [02:51.40]The Saviour called my name