He Said 1.Once there was an old time preacher Who had a church on the outskirts of town You'd never call Him a mild-mannered teacher He was a shouter right down to the ground He had a red-letter King James Bible It opened up to John 3: 16 I first heard him at a summer revival He rolled up his sleeves and he started to sing He said, you must confess your sins He said, you must be born again He preached Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead He said, you gotta make it right He said, you need to come tonight The spirit moved stronger with every single passage he read I got saved when I heard what he said He said! He said! 2.Well I'm a member of that little church now But the preacher died a long time ago He was preaching on the street when God called him Now he's a shouting up in heaven I know We're still moving in the right direction And we're following the way that he led We've got that old-time preacher's conviction And I still remember just what he said, what he said He said, you must confess your sins He said, you must be born again He preached Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead He said, you gotta make it right He said, you need to come tonight The spirit moved stronger with every single passage he read I got saved when I heard what that old-time, hell-fire, brimstone preacher said I got saved when I heard what he said, he said