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Harry Belafonte
Goin' Down Jordan

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Here we go. I was living my life as an Anglican, let me tell you how I changed to a Baptist man. Living my life as an Anglican, let me tell you how I changed to a Baptist man. One night I was walking down a Fredericks street, poor and hungry, no shoes on my feet. I saw a door that sat down with sin, was the smell of food that pulled me in. We are going down, we are going down, we are going down, let's walk the heavenly road. I saw how the leader walked up and he shook my hand, said I want you to be a holy man. Right away I made a quick decision, my stomach was a-growling from his pure religion. I started over to get some food, the sisters approached me in a mystic mood. They got me in the water about four or five times, I couldn't see a thing cause I was almost blind singing. I got a sword in my hand, I'm going to use it well. I was drenched to my skin and I was feeling cold, but the sight of the fool made me take a hold. The sisters started to break away, they said kneel, kneel, kneel, kneel and pray. I pray and I pray in a new false smile, me tiny tears was running wild. Just about to get out of the seat when a man jumped up and said before you eat you got to Moan, you got to moan, hey if you want to go to heaven when you die you got to moan. Hey that's what you get when you change to a Baptist man, that's what you get when you change to a Baptist man, that's what you get when you change to a Baptist man. You should have stayed a longer kind of a Lord. No, no, I am glad that I changed to a Baptist man, glad that I changed to a Baptist man. I never had no food as an Anglican, go up the heavenly road so you know you got to moan. I said you got to moan, you got to moan, hey if you want to go to heaven when you die you got to moan. Well now before I baptized I had plenty pain, now I find myself a free man again. Before I baptized I had plenty pain, now I find myself a free man again. Now talk about the leaders, they treat me good, plenty sweet oil and plenty food. Brother it was then that I realized, every man on earth should be baptized cause we're going down. Chalk on we are going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. Now what I said I said going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. Talk to me, talk to me, talk to me, talk to me, talk to me, talk to me. Walk the heavenly road I said we are going down, going down, going down we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. Walk the heavenly road I said we are going down, going down, going down we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. We are going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. Walk the heavenly road I said we are going down, going down, going down we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road. Walk the heavenly road I said we are going down, going down, going down we are going down, chalk on we are going down, chalk on let's walk the heavenly road.
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