Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old
soldier soldier walked out of a barroom
And he said I must be seeing things that
bourbon hit me like a baseball bat
In Belfast Ireland a little lady dropped
her shovel in her garden
She raced across the yard and ask
her neighbor Mrs Clancy what was that
In Memphis Tennessee a teacher raised
the window closest the river
And the children in her classroom swore
they'd heard a choir singing down the street
In Washington DC a private sec
retary's lips began to quiver
And the President just put aside his
papers and rose quickly to his feet
I lay in a cheap motel in the arms
of someone else's woman
When a loud explosion rocked the room
and turned the morning into night
I jumped out of bed and ran into
the street with hardly any clothes on
As the sky lit up my heart stood still and
I could feel my face was turnin' white
All at once the clouds rolled back and there
stood Jesus Christ in all his glory
And I realized the saddest eyes I'd ever
seen were lookin' straight at me
I guess I was awakened by the penetrating
sounds of my own screamin'
And it didn't take me long to stumble
out of bed and fall down on my knees
As tears rolled down my face I cried dear God
I'm thankful I was only dreamin'
And if I never go to hell Lord it'll be
because you scared it out of me