| 1. Once there was an old time preacher
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| Who had a church on the outskirts of town
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| You’d never call Him a mild-mannered teacher
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| He was a shouter right down to the ground
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| He had a red-letter King James Bible
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| It opened up to John 3: 16
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| I first heard him at a summer revival
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| He rolled up his sleeves and he started to sing
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| He said, you must confess your sins
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| He said, you must be born again
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| He preached Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead
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| He said, you gotta make it right
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| He said, you need to come tonight
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| The spirit moved stronger with every single passage he read
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| I got saved when I heard what he said
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| He said! |
| He said!
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| 2.Well I’m a member of that little church now
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| But the preacher died a long time ago
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| He was preaching on the street when God called him
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| Now he’s a shouting up in heaven I know
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| We’re still moving in the right direction
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| And we’re following the way that he led
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| We’ve got that old-time preacher’s conviction
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| And I still remember just what he said, what he said
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| He said, you must confess your sins |
| He said, you must be born again
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| He preached Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead
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| He said, you gotta make it right
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| He said, you need to come tonight
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| The spirit moved stronger with every single passage he read
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| I got saved when I heard what that old-time, hell-fire, brimstone preacher said
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| I got saved when I heard what he said, he said |