Somewhere in Vietnam
a nineteen year old soldier stumbled from a bar room
he said I must be seeing things
that bourbon hit me like a baseball bat

In Belfast, Ireland a little lady dropped her shovel in her garden
as she raced across her yard to ask her neighbor Mrs. Clancy
"what was that?"

In Memphis, Tennessee a teacher raised the window closest to the river
and the children in her classroom swore they heard a choir singin down the street

In Washington, D.C. a private secretary's lips began to quiver
and the President just put aside some papers and rose quickly to his feet

I lay in a cheap motel in the arms of someone else's woman
when a loud explosion rocked the room and turned the morning into night
I jumped out of bed and ran into the street with hardly any clothes on
and as the sky lit up my heart stood still and I could feel my face turn white

All at once the clouds rolled back and there stood Jesus Christ in all his glory
and I realized the saddest eyes I'd ever seen were lookin straight at me