A Bible and A Belt

A Bible And A Belt

They were both made of leather, both black and frayed and worn
I was brought up to respect them since the day that I was born.
One came here from England, it's been handed down for years|,
The other one was ordered from a catalogue at Sears.

One my mama read to me that I was well into my teens And I thought all the other one was for was to hold up daddy's jeans
Till I told a lie and learned it had an-other purpose too And be-hind the shed, my daddy said, "this will hurt me more than you".

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'Cause one had my daddy's name on it, the other said King James
With love they taught us lessons, but we feared them both the same
One led us to heaven and the other left a welt But those were the days when kids were raised with a bible and a belt

I re-member when I was twelve, I stole a dime store comic book
And how mama read what the scr i pture said to take back what I took
When I refused, my daddy grabbed my arm and said "Come on" I needed more, he knew than just Matthew,Mark, Luke and John

Well, some-times they made me cry, sometimes they made me fightin' mad
I wish I've been raised without them like some other children had
But now I'm grown with kids of my own and I know just how they felt
You know, it seems to me what the world still needs is a bible and a belt

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