Tell them tell them,

    Tell them the reason why you crying children

    Tell them, tell them tell them the

    Reason why you shed those tears

    (rep.)



    If I never did right or if I

    ever did wrong, wrong, wrong,

    It's because situation arise

    Where things don't seem to belong



    Trial and crosses are always

    Before me thorns and prickles

    in-a my way, my way, my way,

    With the task-master always

    Behind me, waiting for a chance

    To take my life away.



    And my burdens, they're getting

    Heavy and heavier every day

    My burdens, I'm like one who

    Labours without no pay

    My burdens sweating like a slave to live another day

    My burdens, if I didn't follow my

    Mind I would be gone astray.



    For silver and gold have I none have I none

    Silver and Gold have I none have I none

    Silver, silver, silver and Gold have I none, have I none

    Silver and gold have I none have  I none.



    So wont you tell them tell them

    Tell them the reason why you crying children.

    Tell them, tell them, tell them the 

    Reason why you shed those tears

    (rep.)



    Working round the clock and obeying

    The gong is like the weak who's

    Got to feed the strong

    I got to carry my load like a

    Child of Israel battering and

    Dragging along, along, along.

    Blessed is the man who keepeth

    his faith, and hope for the

    day of his great Redemption

    to get away from grief and hate

    And into the joys of the sweet liberations.



    Slave driver, dry bone crying in the wilderness

    Slave driver, only muscle  and blood can stand the test (rep.)



    Moses Children I know was

    In shadows of death the shadows  a death

    But Moses Children, they rose from strength to strength. (rep.)