Bible Vs. Gun

Oh Mother, are you sleeping?

And did you pray for me tonight?

'Cause I'm alone here on this front-line

Hoping I might get back home alive

I see the bullets flying

And I feel the bombs explode

I close my eyes and pull this trigger

And kill these people that I don't even know

Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done

I hope I can still get home to heaven

I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun

I got sixty pounds upon my back

A machine gun in my hand

All day long, clearin' burned-out shacks

All these things I know I'll never understand

Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done

I hope I can still get home to heaven

I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun

Oh I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun

Oh I wish that I could tell you

That I was safe away from harm

But every time I close my eyes

Mama, I wish you could hold me in your arms

Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done

I hope I can still get home to heaven

I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun

Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done

I hope I can still get home to heaven

I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun

Oh I wish I had a Bible instead of this damn gun