| Sweet Jesus, come and save me
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| I’ve been weak and gone astray
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| Take me down to the water and wash my sins away
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| Sweet Jesus, I believe
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| I have no faith in the word you say
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| Make me clean, make me pure again
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| Make me ready for the judgment day
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| Cause the long way round is sometimes the only way home
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| Yeah, the long way round is sometimes the only way home, the only way home,
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| the only way home
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| Lay my hands on the Bible and swear to the good Lord above
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| I’ll make amends for my sinful ways and give myself up to your love
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| No more whiskey or whoring
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| Or fighting like an alley cat
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| 'Cause in the eyes of the Lord it don’t matter where you’re from
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| It just matters where you’re at
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| Cause the long way round is sometimes the only way home
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| Yeah, the long way round is sometimes the only way home, the only way home,
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| the only way home
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| I ain’t always been an honest man
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| And I’ve never been as white as snow
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| Travel a dark and dirty road
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| Then you reap just what I sow
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| Sweet Jesus, be my saviour
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| Come and lay your hands on me
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| Count me in for the resurrection
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| Heaven for eternity
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| Cause the long way round is sometimes the only way home
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| Yeah, the long way round is sometimes the only way home
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| Cause the long way round is sometimes the only way home
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| Yeah, the long way round is sometimes the only way home, the only way home,
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| the only way home |