Have you been to the jail?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Have you been to the jail?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Have you been to the jail?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Cert’nly, Lord!
Have you been to the jail?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Have you been to the jail?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your thirty days?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, did you do your time?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Well, would you go back again?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you fight for freedom?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the world?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord!
Oh, will you tell it to the judge?
Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord! Cert’nly, Lord!
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2015/3/11 - 14:16
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Interpretata dai CORE (COngress of Racial Equality) Freedom Singers nella compilation “Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement (Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966)”, pubblicata dalla Smithsonian Folkways nel 1980.
Un brano tradizionale religioso trasformato in inno del movimento per i diritti civili statunitense.