[Verse 1]
Front row, Sunday school, little 5 year old me,
King James in my hand, quoting John 3:16.
  I didn't know it then but reading it would change my life:
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the middle of the black and white.
 
[Chorus]
  Red letters on the pages,   red letters from my Savior,
  words never will ever forget.
I read everything he wrote me   when it comes to what he told me.
I'm still hanging on to every single word he said,
thank God Almighty I was raised on red.
 
[Verse 2]
Love the Lord your God, love your neighbor as yourself,
you gotta walk that extra mile when you're brother is needing some help.
  Be a city on a hill, shining the darkest night,
I know that it's the gospel truth 'cause I read it in the black and white.
 
[Chorus]
  Red letters on the pages,   red letters from my Savior,
  words never will ever forget.
I read everything he wrote me   when it comes to what he told me.
I'm still hanging on to every single word he said,
thank God Almighty I was raised on red.
 
[Bridge]
Red stained glass and a church down the red dirt road,
     red back hymnal wearing a red chior robe.
Red-faced preacher shouting how the red blood   flowed
takes me back to the time when the Savior saved my soul.
 
[End-Chorus]
  Red letters on the pages,   red letters from my Savior,
  words never will ever forget.
I read everything he wrote me   when it comes to what he told me.
I'm still hanging on to every single word he said,
thank God Almighty I was raised on red.
I said thank God Almighty I was raised on red.
Thank God Almighty I was raised on red.