Preacher's Daughter - Joy Williams

His hands turn gold leaf pages

Then taught me to tie my laces

He could build a house

Strong as the good lord’s prayer

Had two girls and never a son

Left his job and anyone

For cardboard boxes full of Sunday clothes to wear

Yeah, we’re all just who we are

The apple don’t fall far

Preacher’s daughter, I love my father

Turned wine from water in my eyes

Bound together, sweet surrender

I forever know that I’m a preacher’s daughter

I was the one he could not tame

Bound to scuff up the family name

And at seventeen I took off on my own

And like his will, I would not bend

I guess I got my nerve from him

We were made of salt

We were never made of stone

Preacher’s daughter, I love my father

Turned wine from water in my eyes

Bound together, sweet surrender

I forever know that I’m a preacher’s daughter

A preacher’s daughter

I took him to the brink

He forgave me at the kitchen sink

Like an altar, I laid all my burdens down

And the day that he passed on

I lost a little piece of God

But I see his smile in the son that I have now

Oh, preacher’s daughter, I love my father

Turned wine from water in my eyes

Bound together, heaven’s treasure

I forever know that I’m a preacher’s daughter

A preacher’s daughter