This Land The Lord And Me 가사

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