[00:16.28]I hear that prayer and praying
[00:18.40]Will change this world around
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[00:20.61]I fold my hands I bow my head
[00:23.05]I kneel down on the ground
[00:25.28]I prayed and prayed by night and day
[00:27.89]And then I prayed some more
[00:29.69]I prayed till my tongue was dry as dust
[00:32.13]And I prayed till my knees had sores
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[00:43.25]Will prayer change shacks to decent homes
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[00:47.60]Will prayer change sickness into health
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[00:52.16]Will prayer change hate to works of love
[00:56.49]Will prayer get me my right to vote
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[01:18.35]Will prayer give jobs at honest pay
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[01:22.78]Will prayer bring stomach full of food
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[01:27.14]Will prayer make rich treat poor folks right
[01:31.39]Will prayer take out the Ku Klux Klan
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[01:53.13]Will prayer cut down the hoodlum bands
[01:57.39]Will prayer stop in the lynchbug hands
[02:01.75]If all of these things my prayers can do
[02:06.11]I'll pray till I am black and blue
[02:10.38]I'll pray till I am black and blue
[02:12.49]I'll pray till I am black and blue
[02:14.70]I'll pray till I am black and blue
[02:16.87]I'll pray till I am black and blue
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[03:10.82]If prayer will bring us union love
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[03:14.87]I'll pray and pray and pray some more
[03:19.25]I'll pray all day from door to door
[03:23.42]And fall at night to pray some more
[03:27.86]My prayer with a union label
[03:29.93]My prayer with a union label
[03:32.00]My prayer with a union label
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[03:34.09]My prayer with a union label