IN A TOWN IN ARIZONA, IN 1864 THE PARSON OF THE LOCAL CHURCH CAME KNOCKING AT MY DOOR I'D NEVER BEEN TO SERVICE, I DID'NT KNOW THE MAN THEN I RECOGNIZED HIM BY THE BIBLE IN HIS HAND I FELT MY BODY TREMBLING, AS IF HE'D PULLED HIS GUN I KNEW WHY HE WAS HERE TODAY, CAUSE I WAS ON THE RUN I KNEW I WAS'NT LIVING RIGHT, THEN I HEARD HIM SAY THE WAGES OF YOUR SIN IS DEATH, AND DEATH'S THE PRICE YOU'LL PAY (Chorus) THIS IS HOW THE WEST WAS WON FIRST HE CAME TO LIVE OUR PAIN THEN DIE FOR EVERYONE HOW THE WEST WAS WON HIS MERCY FILLED THIS EMPTY HEART NEW LIFE HAD JUST BEGUN I FELT MY HEART A-BREAKING, I FELL ON MY HANDS AND KNEES I KNEW I HAD TO GET IT RIGHT, WITH ME GOD WAS'NT PLEASED AND AS I PRAYED A SIMPLE PRAYER I FELT MY BURDEN FALL THEN I HAD A PEACE INSIDE THAT I CAN STILL RECALL IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS SINCE I FIRST CAME TO KNOW THE LORD I LAID DOWN MY 6-SHOOTER WHEN HE HANDED ME HIS SWORD THE PARSON WAVED GOODBYE AND PLACED HIS BIBLE IN MY HAND NOW THE FOLKS IN THIS SMALL TOWN CALL ME THE PREACHERMAN (Chorus) THIS IS HOW THE WEST WAS WON FIRST HE CAME TO LIVE OUR PAIN THEN DIE FOR EVERYONE HOW THE WEST WAS WON HIS MERCY FILLED THIS EMPTY HEART NEW LIFE HAD JUST BEGUN