Union Prayer

I hear that prayer and praying

Will change this world around

I fold my hands I bow my head

I kneel down on the ground

I prayed and prayed by night and day

And then I prayed some more

I prayed till my tongue was dry as dust

And I prayed till my knees had sores

Will prayer change shacks to decent homes

Will prayer change sickness into health

Will prayer change hate to works of love

Will prayer get me my right to vote

Will prayer give jobs at honest pay

Will prayer bring stomach full of food

Will prayer make rich treat poor folks right

Will prayer take out the Ku Klux Klan

Will prayer cut down the hoodlum bands

Will prayer stop in the lynchbug hands

If all of these things my prayers can do

I'll pray till I am black and blue

I'll pray till I am black and blue

I'll pray till I am black and blue

I'll pray till I am black and blue

I'll pray till I am black and blue

If prayer will bring us union love

I'll pray and pray and pray some more

I'll pray all day from door to door

And fall at night to pray some more

My prayer with a union label

My prayer with a union label

My prayer with a union label

My prayer with a union label