歌手:Aaron Watson
专辑:《Live: Deep In The Heart of Texas》

作曲 : Lowry, Watson
Barbed Wire Halo
Well God bless Texas

And Deakon Shackleford

He read the bible seven times

And he believed every word

That ol' beat up leather book had been through it all

He sat on the back pew so he could chew him a chaw
Singing
"Amazing Grace

How sweet the sound"

That saved a wrech like me

He carried candy for the kids in his Sunday dress coat

He'd take me fishin' after church

And taught me things I needed to know
No, Deakon didn't have a family

Lord knows he wished he did
He told the whole congregation that I was his grandkid

And today he joined up with Jesus

Wearing shiny pearl snaps

We sang a few gospel hymns

And then the soldier played taps

I bet he's walkin' with Pete down the street paved with gold

Showin' off his brand spanking new wings

And his barbed wire halo

He married sweet Emma Grace before the war was through

She held his right arm next to his anchor tatoo

He was on a ship off at sea when she died in child birth

He lost his whole world from the far side of the earth

He lost the will to love

He lost the will to live

Until he met a man who taught him to forgive

Yeah life took him to hell and back
To hell and back a time or two

But in the end he beat the devil until he was black and blue

Singing
"I once was lost
But now I'm found

Was blind

But now I see"

And today he joined up with Jesus

Wearing shiny pearl snaps
We sang a few gospel hymns

And then the soldier played taps

I bet he's walkin' with Pete down the street paved with gold

Showin' off his brand spanking new wings

And his barbed wire halo

Before he went he made me promise him that I wouldn't cry

And though I told him that I wouldn't I couldn't help but lie

Cause today he joined up with Jesus
Wearing shiny pearl snaps

We sang a few gospel hymns

And then the soldier played taps

I bet he's walking with Pete down the street paved with gold

As sure as the old church bell still rings

He always said he had country in his soul

He's showing off his brand spanking new wings

And his barbed wire halo

Sweet chariots coming forth to carry me home