Started a long time
Started a long time
Started a long time ago

Started with a whip
A man went down
Blood on his head as he laid on the ground
But he doesn't die
He gets up
And starts walking down that road

And the man was a black man
He was a strong black man
Who's try-y-ing to go home
He needs some help
He looks around
And sees his friends still workin' around him

So he digs down to his soul
And sings a song that go-oes somethin' like this

(vocalised part for a few lines)

And the devil was there
The devil was there
You better believe the devil was there that day
The devil wasn't walking with the black man
He wasn't walking with the proud black man
The devil was wiping the blood off his boots that day

I guarantee you brothers and sisters
To within a hundred and ten percent guarantee baby
That jesus was walking with the black man that day

And that's the birth of the blue-es