The Preacher And The Slave-Pete Seeger/Tom Glazer

[ti:The Preacher And The Slave] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Protest Songs Of America] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Preacher And The Slave - Pete Seeger/Tom Glazer [00:29.48]Long haired preachers come out every night [00:33.22] [00:34.17]Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; [00:38.26] [00:38.88]But when asked how 'bout something to eat [00:42.86] [00:43.58]They will answer with voices so sweet: [00:48.11]You will eat bye and bye [00:52.93]In that glorious land above the sky; [00:57.50]Work and Pray live on hay [01:02.22]You'll get pie in the sky when you die [01:06.15] [01:06.94]And the starvation army they play [01:10.55] [01:11.23]And they sing and they clap and they pray [01:15.10] [01:15.69]Till they get all your coin on the drum [01:19.44] [01:20.02]Then they tell you when you are on the bum: [01:23.11] [01:42.76]If you fight hard for children and wife [01:46.40] [01:47.11]Try to get something good in this life [01:51.40]You're a sinner and bad man they tell [01:55.64]When you die you will sure go to hell [01:59.23] [02:17.91]Workingmen of all countries unite [02:22.13]Side by side we for freedom will fight; [02:26.50]When the world and it's wealth we have gained [02:30.85]To the grafters we'll sing this refrain: [02:34.92] [02:35.52]You will eat bye and bye [02:40.02]When you've learned how to cook and to fry [02:44.53]Chop some wood 'twill do you good [02:49.63]And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye