Emancipation, they say, will never come Oh-oh, will never come Man, I say, man is doomed to die Dung in a babylon with war an' strife Grief, and a terror, and the tongues of hate This, I know, will soon abate For I have seen the land of my father in my visions From the hills of captivity's plains Yes I, the seed of a righteous one Will someday declare for I this land For my brothers and my sisters And my brethren in the yoke of oppression For the child who only knows of hate and destruction Deliverance will come-come-come Deliverance will come In a dis ya time it will come-come-come Deliverance will come No more visitation Now I know where I man stand Yeah, woah, yeah For I have seen the land of my father in my visions, yeah From the hills of captivity's plains Yes I, the seed of a righteous one Will someday declare, for I this land The man called wise, they all laugh at me My captivity an' bondage, all they can see Emancipation, they say, will never come Your destiny is in babylon And not in beulah land, beulah land But I know the weary, destitute and scorned, yeah We can strength by oppression and dread reforms, yeah But deliverance will come-come-come Deliverance will come In a dis ya time it will come-come-come Deliverance will come, yeah Jubilation, celebration, no more visitation In a dis ya time, yeah Jubilation, yeah In a beulah land, yeah In a beulah land, whoa