Preachin' - The Answer

Gonna get me religion, I’m gonna join the baptist church

Gonna get me religion, I’m gonna join the baptist church

That’s right

Gonna be a baptist preacher so that I won’t have to work

Well, I’ll be in the pulpit jumpin' up and down, down, down, down, down

Yeah, I’ll be in the pulpit jumpin' up and down

Okay

Well I be hollerin' good news, oh for miles around

O-ho

One sister jumped up, ooh she began to grin.

Yeah she did

Well one sister jumped up, ooh she began to grin

She said: Good lord have a-mercy, please forgive me for my sins

Forgive me now, please please please

Ah yes

Get me religion, gonna join the baptist church

Climb up this mountain, shining down upon my work

Get me religion, gonna join the baptist church

Now we’re gonna lift it up

Yes we’ve got to lift it up

Tell me do you feel alright

Tell me do you feel alright

Then we can scream and shout

Yes we can scream and shout

Then you can clap your hands

Yeah you can clap your hands

Well you can clap your hands, clap your hands, clap your hands

Ah you can clap your hands, clap your hands, clap your hands

Ooooh

I’m gonna get me religion, ooh I’m gonna join the baptist church

That’s right

Yeah, I’m gonna get me a religion, I’m gonna join the baptist church

Gonna preach all day so I don’t have to work

Preach all day so I don’t have to work

Gonna preach all day so I don’t hurt

Gonna preach all day so I don’t know

Gonna preach all day so I don’t have to

Work no more

Work no more

Work no more

Work no more

I ain’t gonna work

I don’t wanna work

I ain’t gonna work no more