Story Behind The Song

Started with two songs that went unfinished for 2 years. Then combined them.

Song Description

Preacher's daughter goes to a tavern every Sunday to preach to the people their, against her Father's wishes. She brings salvation to the patrons.

Lyrics

Tavern Down The Street

Mama was a preacher's daughter down in Tennessee.
He told her daily what the Lord expected her to be.
Mama tried but she just couldn't live her life that way.
It really didn't matter what her Daddy had to say.

Every Sunday evening she would take her steel guitar
and walk across the river to that little country bar.
Grandpa told her she would never sit at Jesus' feet.
But to Mama Heaven was that little tavern down the street.

Chorus:
Where she would sing, how the music moved them.
Sing, rythmn and blued them.
Gospel with a country beat, how it brought the people to their feet.
Sing, as through the music taught them.
Sing, as to the river brought them.
Bringing salvation to that tavern down the street.

Mama's lips would quiver as she sang Amazing Grace.
Cause she believed through Jesus Christ that everyone was saved.
Mama touched the hearts of everyone that she would meet.
But none more than those people in that tavern down the street.

Mama died at the tender age of forty-three.
The chapel overflowing was quite a sight to see.
People dressed in Sunday best came from miles around.
There was only standing room when they laid my Mama down.

Chorus:
Where they did sing, how the music moved them.
Sing, rythmn and blued them.
Gospel with a country beat, how it brought the people to their feet.
Sing, as through the music taught them.
Sing, as to the church she brought them.
Bringing salvation to that tavern down the street.

Mama brought salvation to that tavern down the street.