Story of My Life (Preacher Man)

It seems like only yesterday when I was just a child

And every memory takes me back to a school where I spent time

It's where I learned to read and write and right ain't always fair

But I am who I am because of a person I met there

He was tall and straight as an oak tree but eyes color of the sky

A voice as sharp as a whip but gentle when it was time

From a teacher to a preacher who taught the golden rule

It wasn't found in words you say but in the things you do

I'm a small-town girl with big dreams

I left home at sixteen

Traveling the world with him in mind, trying to spread sunshine

No beggar should be choosing

And love not worth losing

Each story that I learn from him is the story of my life

I heard the news just recently time had finally come

That old town country preacher man's preaching days were done

But far beyond the years he lived, his presence still remains

For every person that he touched is a person who's been changed

There's no time to compromise the things that you believe

'Cause if you stand for nothing, then you'll fall for anything

That preacher's words keep showing up in every song I write

And like a prayer on the wind, his words are right on time

I'm a small-town girl with big dreams

I left home at sixteen

Traveling the world with him in mind, trying to spread sunshine

No beggar should be choosing

And love not worth losing

Each story that I learn from him is the story of my life

I'm a small-town girl with big dreams

I left home at sixteen

Traveling the world with him in mind, trying to spread sunshine

No beggar should be choosing

And love not worth losing

Each story that I learn from him is the story of my life

Each story that I learn from him is the story of my life