SATURDAY SATAN, SUNDAY SAINT
(Wayne Walker)

Ernest Tubb - 1968

Also recorded by: Blackstone Valley Sinners


Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint
Fooling your neighbor
That’s what you think
Reading the good book
Singing the hymns
Come Monday morning and it's back to a life of sin

‘O brother Brown 
All weak he steals
Tells everyone 
His big business deals
The Deacon walks by
A dollar hits the plate
Trying to buy himself a ticket to the Pearly Gate

‘O sister Rose
On the very first row
Been a sittin’ right there
Twenty years or so
Never hears a word
When the preacher speaks
Too busy talking about the bad girl down the street

Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint
Fooling your neighbor
That’s what you think
Reading the good book
Singing the hymns
Come Monday morning and it's back to a life of sin

This little song
Holds good advice
Though some people may
Think it ain’t too nice
Well if you're one
Who’s wearin’ the shoes
Well there's somebody watching and he ain’t no body’s fool

Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint
Fooling your neighbor
That’s what you think
Reading the good book
Singing the hymns
Come Monday morning and it's back to a life of sin
Come Monday morning and it's back to a life of sin


(Contributed by lylemalone - August 2005)