SOMEONE HERE MUST KNOW

I posted a lryc./chrd request (click) about a month ago and didn't recieve any succesful response. Actually, what I'd like to know is WHO sung this song, and then I could find the rest of the info. myself. Amongst all of you afficionados, however you spell that, there must be someone who knows this song- so I'm posting again.

(The song sounds like it could have been recorded anywhere from 1980 to 97, the time I heard it. The male singer has a deep voice and sort of half speaks/half sings it the way Leonard Cohen might.)

Here are the lyrics that I remember, the chorus:

"Do they know I was a Pastor? I was a saint in the church.
I fought for my children and I did good work.
I fought for my lover and my self-respect...

And the nectar of life never left my tongue...
...........Forever young"

Anyone?