Michael Ray has debuted a music video for his song "Real Men Love Jesus."

A note at the end of the video dedicates the clip to Amos "Papa" Roach, Ray's grandfather, who was a musician in his own right and a huge influence on Ray.

“My grandfather was such a stickler on the history of country music. He loved it!" Ray tells ABC News Radio. "Growing up around him, like that was our kind of a bonding thing ..."

In the music video, Ray is wearing a cross necklace -- the same cross necklace that is shown around the neck of a young boy who is fishing with his dad, a young man dancing in a bar with a woman and a guy engaged in a war battle. They're all the same person -- someone like Ray's grandfather -- as the man is growing up throughout the video, and at the end of the clip, he passes the cross necklace on to his grandson, a young actor who's supposed to be someone like Ray.

“Real Men Love Jesus” was written by Lance Miller, Brad and Brett Warren and Adam Sanders — “four buddies of mine,” says Ray, who adds that “it’s one of those songs that I wish is one I had written, because it’s one of the best songs that I’ve ever heard.”

“I wanted to put a song on there for the guy that gets overlooked — the guy that’s working all week and has a few beers on the weekend but is just trying to do right, keep his head down and raise a family,” the singer continues. “Those are the guys who raised me. That’s my dad, that’s me, that’s my grandpa — the men who were in my life.”

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