If you're ever 
 
 In the Richmond Jail 
 
 With no one around 
 
 To go your bail
 
 If you've lost your way 
 
 It might help to know
 
 Jesus is the way home
 
  
  If you're trying 
 
 To put that whiskey down
 
 And you realize 
 
 You're losing ground
 
 You don't have to walk 
 
 That road alone
 
 Jesus is the way home
  
 
 You don't have to worry 
 
 Where you're at
 
 Or why you're there 
 
 He knows all that
 
 You just let 
 
 The Good Book be your map
 
 Jesus is the way home
  
 
 If you think 
 
 Nobody understands
 
 And life's not going 
 
 Like you planned
 
 There's a friend 
 
 Who'll show you how to go
 
 Jesus is the way home
  
 
 There's a garden 
 
 Down in Alabam'
 
 Not too far 
 
 South of Birmingham
 
 Painted signs 
 
 And crosses by the road
 
 One says Jesus 
 
 Is the way home
  
 
 For the Bible tells me so
 
 Jesus is the way home