Songtext The hero Kris Kristofferson

The hero

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

Shining through eternity?

Would it bother you to know that you can be just as good

As you really want to be?

And 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 through the night

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 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 through the night

Where no mortal ever trod

Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh, Jesus Christ

Is the Lord Almighty God