Bang a Drum

I went to see the preacher to teach me how to pray

He looked at me and smiled then that preacher turned away

He said "Son, if you want to tell him something

You ain't gotta fold your hands

Say it with your heart your soul and believe it, and I'll say

amen"

Bang a drum for the sinners, bang a drum for the sins

Bang a drum for the losers and those who win

Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as soft as you need

Bang a drum for yourself son and a drum for me

Oh-oh- oh-oh-oh oh oh let me hear you say:

Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen

I called upon my brother just the other day,

He said: "Jon, I'm gonna die if I don't start to live again

I work each day and night like clockwork just trying to make ends meet

I could kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet"

I'd bang a drum for the dying, bang a drum for the truth

Bang a drum for the innocence lost in our youth

Bang a drum bang it loudly or as soft as you need

Bang a drum for you brother and a drum for me

I don't know where all the rivers run

I don't know how far, I don't know how come

But I'm gonna die believin' each step that I take

Ain't worth the ground that I walk on

If we don't walk it our own way

No I don't claim to be a wise man a poet or a saint

I'm just another man who's searching for a better way

But my heart beats loud as thunder for the things that I

believe

Sometimes I wanna run for cover, sometimes I want to scream

Bang a drum for tomorrow, bang a drum for the past

Bang a drum for the heros that won't come back

Bang a drum for the promise, bang a drum for the lies

Bang a drum for the lovers and the tears they've cried

Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as soft as you need

But as long as my heart keeps on bangin'

I got a reason to believe

Yeah yeah oh yeah oh let me hear you say:

Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen

Yeah yeah oh yeah oh let me hear you say:

Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen