You're Not Home Yet

You're Not Home Yet - Merle Haggard (梅爾·哈格德)

Beautiful isle of somewhere

If you've got two or three minutes

I'd like to tell you a story

And this a story about a preacher

And I know there's a lot of stories

About a lot of preachers

But this is a story of one particular preacher

Who went overseas to fight a war

And this was a war for God

And not for any one country

And he fought a long hard fight

And he won a lot of souls

But this preacher got old and he was coming home

Now he just happened to be on the same ship

With what some of us call a celebrity

And when the boat docked

There were thousands of people waiting

To meet the celebrity

And they carried him off on their shoulders

But there was no one there

To meet the old preacher

And he looked up and he said

"Lord did you forget "

Well it seemed like the Heavens just broke open

And the Lord said "No son I didn't forget

But you must remember

You're not home yet"

You're not home you're not home

You're not home yet

I can still hear my Lord's voice ringing

"There'll be a crowd to meet you

A choir of angels to greet you

I didn't forget but son

You're not home yet"