1. I seen and heard an awful sight.
It was on one dark and stormy night,
The lightning flashed and the thunder rolled
Across my dark benighted soul.

2. I started on, got there at last.
I thought I’d take a social glass.
I poured it out, and I stirred it well,
And I thought about a drunkard’s hell.

3. I dashed it out, and I left that place
And thought about redeeming grace.
The very moment grace begun,
Ten thousand joys around me sung.

4. I started home for to change my life
And see my long-neglected wife.
I found her weeping o’er the bed,
Because her infant son was dead.

5. I took her by her lily-white hand.
She was so weak she could not stand.
I laid her down, and I breathed a prayer
That God might bless and save us there.

6. Oh, it’s five long years have passed away
Since first I bowed my head to pray.
Oh, it’s five long years I was over life
With a good home and a loving wife.

7. I started on to the temperance band
To make a pledge among them all.
I met them all with a welcome hand
And joined with them in the temperance band.