The Hero

(Kris Kristofferson)



Don't you like to see the hero take his licks like a man

Stand up and be tested and be true

Would you like to be a hero in your life

Well, you can, did you know it's up to you?



Would you trade your place with Jesus

On the cross if you could, shinin' through eternity

Would it bother you to know that you can be

Just as good as you really want to be.



If you're bound to do your duty then it's time that you do

Look your future in the face

For the most important person in the world which is you

Or the whole damn human race.



There's a holy band of angels

Flying high where no mortal ever trod

Singing holy, holy, holy, holy

Oh, Jesus Christ is the Lord Almighty God.



You see the good thing is you don't have to be

As good as Jesus to start out with

All you gotta do is ask yourself, how would Gary Cooper have done it

Or John Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Malcom X?



There's a holy band of angels

Flying high where no mortal ever trod

Singing holy, holy, holy, holy

Oh, Jesus Christ is the Lord Almighty God.



(Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, oh

Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, oh...)