A Bible And A Belt - Joey/Rory

作曲：Rory Feek/Philip Coleman

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 catalog at sears

One my mamma read to me till

I was well into my teens

I thought all the other one was for

Was to hold up daddy's Jeans

Till I told a lie and learned it had

Another purpose too

Out behind the she'd my daddy said

This'll hurt me more than you

'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

Those were the days when kids were raised

With a bible and a belt

I remember when I was twelve

I stole a dime store comic book

How mamma read where the scriptures 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 and Luke and John

Well sometimes they made me cry

Sometimes they made me fightin' mad

And I wished I'd 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

'Cause one had my daddy's name on it

The other said king James

With love they taught us lessons

We feared them both the same

One led us to heaven

And the other hurt like hell

Those were the days when kids were raised

With a bible and a belt

A bible

And a belt