The Preacher's Hunt

[Verse 1] There's a man in black with a holy book Two six-guns hanging by his side Cigarette smoke curls around his face As he mounts up for another ride They say he used to save men's souls Now he sends them to their grave The good book's traded for the gun When mercy couldn't make them change [Chorus] He's riding hard through the desert sand With the devil's work in his holy hands Thunder rolls and the lightning strikes As the preacher hunts through the endless night Two six-guns and a righteous rage Turn the hunter into prey When you sin against the Lord above There's a price you're gonna pay [Verse 2] Johnny Wade robbed the church last spring Shot the altar boy in cold blood Now the preacher's on his dusty trail Following hoofprints through the mud Cigarette glows in the morning light As he reads the tracks in the dirt Every mile brings him closer now To the man who's gonna hurt [Chorus] He's riding hard through the desert sand With the devil's work in his holy hands Thunder rolls and the lightning strikes As the preacher hunts through the endless night Two six-guns and a righteous rage Turn the hunter into prey When you sin against the Lord above There's a price you're gonna pay [Bridge] In the canyon where the shadows fall The sinner makes his final stand But the preacher's faster on the draw Justice served by holy hands Smoke rises from the barrel's end As the echoes fade away Another soul sent to judgment day Another debt that's come to pay [Verse 3] Now he lights another cigarette Whispers prayers over the dead Holsters up his smoking guns Tips his hat and rides ahead There's always another sinner out there Running from the hand of God But the preacher's got all eternity To even up the odds [Chorus] He's riding hard through the desert sand With the devil's work in his holy hands Thunder rolls and the lightning strikes As the preacher hunts through the endless night Two six-guns and a righteous rage In this godforsaken place When you sin against the Lord above You'll meet the preacher face to face [Outro] Black coat flowing in the desert wind Cigarette smoke trails behind The preacher rides into the night Leaving sinners dead and blind