Gideon Ouseley was a wild one Lost an eye but not his fight Preached loud under the sun In fields from morn to night [Verse 2] Spoke the words in Irish To the folks in village fairs Faced both love and peril Yet he kept on standing there [Chorus] Gideon Ouseley the preacher With a burning fire within Spread the word to all would hear him Christ died for our sins. [Verse 3] Laughed in the face of danger Derision all around Still through every stranger Christ to him was found [Verse 4] Violence could not break him Nor the stones they hurled Gideon kept on speaking Love to all the world [Chorus] Gideon Ouseley the preacher With a burning fire within Spread the word to all would hear him Christ died for our sins. He was the Irish Wesley and Preached from morn to night His comrades were the black caps godly men that rode on steads
Gideon Ouseley was a wild one
Lost an eye but not his fight
Preached loud under the sun
In fields from morn to night
[Verse 2]
Spoke the words in Irish
To the folks in village fairs
Faced both love and peril
Yet he kept on standing there
[Chorus]
Gideon Ouseley the preacher
With a burning fire within
Spread the word to all would hear him
Christ died for our sins.
[Verse 3]
Laughed in the face of danger
Derision all around
Still through every stranger
Christ to him was found
[Verse 4]
Violence could not break him
Nor the stones they hurled
Gideon kept on speaking
Love to all the world
[Chorus]
Gideon Ouseley the preacher
With a burning fire within
Spread the word to all would hear him
Christ died for our sins.
He was the Irish Wesley
and Preached from morn to night
His comrades were the black caps
godly men that rode on steads