You Shall Be Free Traditional - as sung by Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie* In the morning: you shall be free Whole day, you shall be free Let me sing, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free I was down in the hen-house other night Awful dark, I didn’t have no light I reached for a chicken, I got me a goose A man come out, I had to turn him loose Jump together, you shall be free Jump a roll to it, you shall be free Let me sing, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free Chicken and the rooster had a terrible fight Chicken and the rooster gotta be out of sight Chicken told the rooster that will be all right Meet you at the hen-house tomorrow night Let me sing, you shall be free In the morning, you shall be free You know the rooster, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free I was down in the hen-house on my knees Thought I heard a chicken sneeze ‘t was only a rooster saying his prayers Thanking his God for the hens upstairs Here says the preacher, you shall be free Here’s he singing, you shall be free Taking that collection, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free Oh, some folks say, times is hard Preacher says: put your trust in God Man knows the difference, don’t you see A hog can’t run just as fast as me Let me sing: you shall be free In the mornin’, you shall be free Let me sing, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free Well, some people say: preacher won’t steal I caught two, down in my cornfield One had a bushel, other had a peck Other had a rooster down his neck In the morning: you shall be free Get a rooster, you shall be free Yes, and drive corn, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free Well, you see that preacher a-settin’ on a log Finger on a trigger and his eye on a hog Pulls that trigger the gun went zip Grabbed that hog with all his grip Getting a hog eye, you shall be free I don’t care, you shall be free Let me sing, you shall be free When the good Lord sets you free * recorded on my Tribute to W. Guthrie CD   alles-uke.de