Mercy On Me

Lord I ask you for one favor

Lord for someone to help me

Oh Lord, all I need in this world

Is an helping hand

Oh Lord all on my life

I been in trouble as they go by

I been mistreated

Oh Lord, treated like a dog

People look at me on the street

Yes the watch me from my head to feet

As the watch me as they go by

Lord I wonder what's on their mind

I say Oh Lord

Haven't harmed nobody

But they seem to hat me just the same

I say Oh Lord Oh Lord, have mercy on me

People have spit, spit in my face

They have done me everything wrong

They have called me all kind of names

They say; nigger, keep on goin

But in my heart, it be so cruel

Lord I don't know in this world what to do

But I say " Lord, oh Lord, have mercy on me

Have mercy on me "

[Spoken]

I even had kids that threw me dirty water in my face. Scoop it up off the street, and their mother and father standing with them. And I look at them, and have to smile. And I say to myself: Lord have mercy! What wrong have I done to be treated this way? Like I'm no human, I'm like something in the jungle somewhere. But when I bow down on my knee and I pray to the good Lord above, and I ask him only in a few words, say " Lord please have mercy on me, cause there's only one thing in life I want. And all I want, a little favor, just to be free. That's all I want, just to be free

So bye and bye, when my day is come

Yeah and I leave, leave this world behind

I'll say: Lord, lord, have mercy on me