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Traveling Evangelist

from Innerweather (1991) by James Hersch

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Written in the writing rooms on Music Row, Nashville, in 1989. Idea came from a poster hanging in the Kroger Grocery Store on South Nolensville Rd.

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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 la��st 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

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.”

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from Innerweather (1991), released August 20, 1991

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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