Fifty years ago, a gypsy boy of 17, with honeyed voice and horny hands, found God in the boom-diddy-boom of Salvation Army drums in the East London slums. General William Booth asked him to rejoice with a solo. "Keep your heart up, my boy," snickered a street lout who had not seen the light.
"It's in my mouth already. Where do you want it?" said the gypsy lad.
And, from that day, Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith has traveled the globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will...
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