Paint your truck tread with some red dust While you kick up the long way home Share some bootleg with your best buds Wear a bit of that bonfire smoke If a back porch swing and twang in your words And settin' that hook was a Good Book verse I'd be doin' alright I'd know where I's goin' when I get to the other side 'cause Backroads and cold beer Are my down-home prayer Can't get no closer To the Man upstairs Than way out there, where the river runs Lord knows I'd be one hell of a disciple If bein' country was in the Bible Hallelujah, amen Heaven blessed this life I live Hallelujah, amen, amen If "John Deere Green" was 3:16 And old barstools were back pew seats These Friday nights would all just seem like Sunday mornin' If them words in red were a little more read This sinner'd be a saint instead 'Cause backroads and cold beer Are my down-home prayer Can't get no closer To the Man upstairs Than way out there, where the river runs Lord knows I'd be one hell of a disciple If bein' country was in the Bible Hallelujah, amen Heaven blessed this life I live Hallelujah, amen, amen 'Cause backroads and cold beer Are my down-home prayer Can't get no closer to God's grace, I swear Than way out there, where the river runs Lord knows I'd be one hell of a disciple If bein' country was in the Bible Hallelujah, amen Heaven blessed this life I live Hallelujah, amen, amen