How I Got Over-Mahalia Jackson

[ti:How I Got Over] [ar:Mahalia Jackson] [al:Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns V] [offset:0] [00:00.59]How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson [00:08.59]How I got over [00:11.21] [00:13.65]How did I make it over [00:15.90] [00:19.53]You know my soul look back and wonder [00:24.15]How I make it over [00:26.80] [00:29.12]How I made it over [00:31.93] [00:34.43]Going on over all these years [00:38.99] [00:40.12]You know my soul look back and wonder [00:44.93]How did I make it over [00:46.87] [00:49.61]Tell me how we got over Lord [00:52.81] [00:54.87]Had a mighty hard time coming on over [00:59.68] [01:00.87]You know my soul look back and wonder [01:05.62]How did we make it over [01:07.68] [01:10.44]Tell me how we got over Lord [01:13.89] [01:15.57]I've been falling and rising all these years [01:21.20]But you know my soul look back and wonder [01:26.51]How did I make it over [01:28.63] [01:30.94]Mmm.. [01:33.00]But, soon as I can see Jesus [01:36.63] [01:38.26]The man that died for me [01:41.70] [01:43.57]Man that bled and suffered [01:47.14] [01:48.57]And he hung on Calvary [01:52.31] [01:53.12]And I want to thank him for how he brought me [01:57.59] [01:58.53]And I want to thank God for how he taught me [02:02.84] [02:03.84]Oh thank my God how he kept me [02:08.78]I'm gonna thank him 'cause he never left me [02:12.90] [02:14.03]Then I'm gonna thank God for 'ole time religion [02:18.15] [02:19.28]And I'm gonna thank God for giving me a vision [02:23.63] [02:24.63]One day, I'm gonna join the heavenly choir [02:28.44] [02:29.70]I'm gonna sing and never get tired [02:33.51] [02:34.51]And then I'm gonna sing [02:36.76]Somewhere 'round God alter [02:39.13] [02:40.07]And I'm gonna shout all my trouble over [02:44.10] [02:44.85]You know I've gotta thank God [02:47.41]And thank him for being [02:49.85]So good to me, Lord yeah [02:54.33] [02:55.32]How I made it over Lord [02:58.64] [02:59.58]I had to cry in the midnight hour coming on over [03:04.70] [03:05.83]But you know my soul look back and wonder [03:10.63]How did I make it over [03:12.63] [03:15.14]Tell me how I made it over Lord God Lord [03:20.13] [03:20.95]Falling and rising all these years [03:26.26]You know my soul look back and wonder [03:31.20]How did I make it over [03:33.86] [03:36.73]I'm gonna wear a diamond garment [03:40.72] [03:41.79]In that new Jerusalem [03:45.73] [03:47.03]I'm gonna walk the streets of gold [03:50.91] [03:52.10]It's the homeland of the soul [03:55.78] [03:57.22]I'm gonna view the host in white [04:01.17] [04:02.48]They've been traveling day and night [04:06.28] [04:07.60]Coming up from every nation [04:11.73] [04:12.67]They're on their way to the great Cognation [04:16.67] [04:17.48]Coming from the north, south, east, and west [04:21.73] [04:22.85]They're on their way to a land of rest [04:26.79] [04:27.42]And they're gonna join the heavenly choir [04:32.47]You know we're gonna sing and never get tired [04:37.60]And then we're gonna sing [04:40.04]Somewhere 'round God alter [04:42.79]And then we're gonna shout [04:45.23]All our troubles over [04:47.92]You know we gotta thank God [04:50.48]Thank him for being so good to me [04:55.60] [04:57.36]You know I come to thank God this evening [05:02.61] [05:03.66]I come to thank him this evening [05:07.80] [05:08.85]You know all all night long [05:13.05] [05:13.67]God kept his angels watching over me [05:17.92] [05:18.85]Early this morning, early this morning [05:22.98] [05:23.92]God told his angel God said, [05:27.73]"touch her in my name" [05:30.86] [05:31.73]God said, "touch her in my name" [05:36.48]I 'rose this morning, [05:38.92]I 'rose this morning, I 'rose this morning [05:43.98]I feel like shouting, [05:46.55]I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting [05:51.67]I feel like shouting, [05:54.17]I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting [05:59.23]I feel like shouting, [06:01.73]I just gotta thank God, I just gotta thank God [06:06.80]I just gotta thank God, [06:09.23]I just gotta thank him [06:11.73]Thank God for being so good, [06:21.36]God been good to me [06:25.35] [06:29.73]-End-