Bible & the Belt - Due West

I grew up back in the sticks

I was raised on cornbread and scripture

And praise god for teaching me wrong from right

I had a wild streak three counties wide

Devil had me dead in his sights

It was the hand of god that kept me

Out of the hands of the law

Mamma brought the bible daddy brung the belt

Mamma set the table daddy rung the bell

The preacher did his best to show me the light

But daddy was the one that kept me walking the line

Mamma sang the gospel daddy drove it home

Mamma was an angel daddy was the brimstone

One foot in heaven one foot in hell

I found religion tween the bible and the belt

I guess it rings true what the good book says

What you learn young you never forget

Daddy’s belt left quite an impression on me

I can still hear mamma’s voice in the choir

She’d set the whole damn church on fire

And it still burns in the deepest part of me

Mamma brought the bible daddy brung the belt

Mamma set the table daddy rung the bell

The preacher did his best to show me the light

But daddy was the one that kept me walking the line

Mamma sang the gospel daddy drove it home

Mamma was an angel daddy was the brimstone

One foot in heaven one foot in hell

I found religion tween the bible and the belt