The gentle healer came into our town today He touched my eyes and the darkness left to stay But more than the blindness He took their sins away The gentle healer came into our town today The gentle healer came into our town today He spoke one word that was all he had to say And one who had dies just rose up straight away The gentle healer came into our town today Oh he seems like just an ordinary man With dirty feet and rough but gentle hands But the words he says are hard to understand Yet he seems like just an ordinary man The gentle healer He left our town today I just looked around and found he'd gone away Some folks from town who followed him they say The gentle healer is the truth, the life, the way The gentle healer it the truth, the life, the way