God's Gonna Cut You Down

You may run home for a long time

Run home for a long time

You may run home for a long time

Until your God Almighty's gonna cut you down

Great God Almighty is gonna cut you down

Go tell that long-tongued liar

Go tell that midnight rider

Tell the gambler, the rambler, the back-biter

Tell them God Almighty's gonna cut them down

Great God Almighty, let me tell you the news

My head's been wet with the midnight dews

Now I've been down on my bended knees

Talking to the man from Galilee

My God spoke, He spoke so sweet

I thought I heard the shuffle of angels' feet

He put one hand upon my head

Great God Almighty, let me tell you what He said

You may run home for a long time

Great God Almighty's gonna cut you down

You can run home for a long time

Run home for a long time

You can run home for a long time

I tell you God Almighty's gonna cut you down

Look how God Almighty's gonna put you down

You may throw a little rock and hide your hand

Working in the dark against your fellow man

But true as God has made the day and the night

What you do in the dark will be brought to the light

You may run and hide, and slide and slide

Trying to take the mold from your neighbor's eye

But true as God has made the Virgin and the Pope

What you reap, my brother, is what you sow

You may run home for a long time

Run home for a long time

You may run home for a long time

I tell you God Almighty's gonna cut you down

Great God Almighty's gonna cut you down

Go tell that long-tongued liar

Go tell that midnight rider

Tell the gambler, the rambler, the back-biter

Tell them God Almighty's gonna cut them down

Great God Almighty's gonna cut them down

Great God Almighty's gonna cut them down

Great God Almighty's gonna cut them down