Deliverance Will Come

Lyrics

[Intro] Emancipation, they say, will never come Oh-oh, will never come [Verse 1] Man, I say, man is doomed to die Dung in a Babylon with war an' strife Grief, and a terror, and the tongues of hate This, I know, will soon abate [Verse 2] For I have seen the land of my father in my visions From the hills of captivity's plains Yes I, the seed of a righteous one Will someday declare for I this land [Pre-Chorus 1] For my brothers and my sisters And my brethren in the yoke of oppression For the child who only knows of hate and destruction [Chorus] Deliverance will come-come-come Deliverance will come In a dis ya time it will come-come-come Deliverance will come [Bridge] No more visitation Now I know where I man stand Yeah, woah, yeah [Verse 2] For I have seen the land of my father in my visions, yeah From the hills of captivity's plains Yes I, the seed of a righteous one Will someday declare, for I this land [Verse 3] The man called wise, they all laugh at me My captivity an' bondage, all they can see Emancipation, they say, will never come Your destiny is in Babylon [Pre-Chorus 2] And not in Beulah Land, Beulah land But I know the weary, destitute and scorned, yeah We can strength by oppression and dread reforms, yeah [Chorus] But deliverance will come-come-come Deliverance will come In a dis ya time it will come-come-come Deliverance will come, yeah [Outro] Jubilation, celebration, no more visitation In a dis ya time, yeah Jubilation, yeah In a Beulah land, yeah In a Beulah Land, whoa