Select language to translate this lyric
I donât know how my mother walked her trouble down
I donât know how my father stood his ground
I donât know how my people survive slavery
I do remember, thatâs why I believe
I donât know how the rivers overflow their banks
I donât know how the snow falls and covers the ground
I donât know how the hurricane sweeps through the land
every now and then
Standing in a rainstorm, I believe
I donât know how the angels woke me up this morning soon
I donât know how the blood still runs thru my veins
I donât know how I rate to run another day
Standing in a rainstorm I believe
My God calls to me in the morning dew
The power of the universe knows my name
Gave me a song to sing and sent me on my way
I raise my voice for justice I believe
- Album:
- A Tribute [Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center]
- Miscellaneous
- Are We A Nation?
- Are We A Nation? - Single
- Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America
- Woody Guthrie: At 100! (Live At the Kennedy Center)
- Selections: 1976-1988
- Breaths
- In This Land
- Songs of the Civil War
- Sacred Ground
- Still on the Journey
- A Festival of Folk
- Live at Carnegie Hall
- Twenty-Five
- Respond II
- Breaths... The Best Of
- The Women Gather
- Feel Something Drawing Me On
- Good News