Traveling Evangelist

In an old school bus and a pickup truck With seventeen kids in tow Traveling hard on the word of god And the power of the holy ghost He was a man of zeal, a man of faith An extraordinary man of hope From the Georgia plain to the sugar cane To the California coast Daddy was a traveling evangelist You've never seen a man get down like this With a bible and a hurricane And a need to testify One fist in the sky, one hand on a sinner With the power of love in his eye Daddy was a traveling evangelist Till the last day of his life It was rain or shine on the gospel line When the tent meeting had begun There were songs to be played There was food to be made The work was never done This family was a rolling hurricane With seventeen children strong Mama had six, ten were adopted And another just tagged along Daddy was a traveling evangelist You've never seen a man get down like this With a bible and a hurricane And a need to testify One fist in the sky, one hand on a sinner With the power of love in his eye Daddy was a traveling evangelist Till the last day of his life I hear my share of that gospel prayer I hear my share of lies I know there's some who'll take your Money and run sayin' god is on their side Daddy never lied, Daddy never cheated I believe every word was true He said "God don't want your last dollar Your faith in him will do God don't want your last dollar Your faith..." Daddy was a traveling evangelist You've never seen a man get down like this With a bible and a hurricane And a need to testify One fist in the sky, one hand on a sinner With the power of love in his eye Daddy was a traveling evangelist Till the last day of his life