Ronnie Jones decided to settle down,
so he married Annie Birch.
Now Annie hadn't been around too much,
she mostly only went to church.
Right away she started in,
insisting that he come on up and join.
He said,
I'll tell you what I'll do to settle this,
by dog I'll flip a coin.
The preacher used some fancy words that
Ronnie tried his best to understand.
Cause he loved his little Annie,
and for her he wanted to be a better man.
But of all the things they told him,
it seemed that he remembered only one.
He said,
I guess I'll have to go up there and tell them everything I've done.
The Sunday meeting just took up and
Ronnie stood outside half scared to death,
dreading
what he had to do in there and trying hard to get his breath.
There didn't seem to be much use to
put off what he had to do no more.
So he backed way
up and took a run and bolted through the double lobby door.
And his eyes began to overflow with tears of joy at what she saw.
The preacher took him by the hand and said,
bless you my boy,
tell it all.
While every head was bowed in prayer,
some women slipped outside as if to pray.
Fearing what the spirit might cause
Ronnie and his circumstance to say.
All their fears were justified,
the sinful life became an open book.
Names like Doris Cunningham and Wanda Webb,
even Marlene Cook.
Another kind of fire began to burn
down in the depths of Annie's soul.
She turned on Ron and used some words
nobody had ever heard her say before.
Sometimes we know not what we pray for.