Reverend

Oh yeah

Uhm, uhm

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

Don't let them reverend turn you to fool

My people

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

He never play it by his rules

Oh, listen now

Don't let the reverend turn you to fool

My people

Don't let him use you as a tool

Oh, hear me now

Don't let the reverend turn you to fool

My people

ʼCause he never play it by his rules

Why boaster thy self

Oh preacher man

Trying to be smart, but not too clever, clever

Youʼre preaching every day, Jesus is coming soon

And others waiting here, forever

Oh hear me now

My great grand parents before me

And their great grand parents too

Oh listen up

They all waited for this man Jesus, Jesus

And here I am waiting too, oh yeah

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

Don't let the reverend turn you to fool

My people

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

He never play it by his rules

Don't let the reverend turn you to fool

My people

Don't let him use you as a tool

Oh, listen now

Don't let the reverend turn you fool

My people

ʼCause he never play it by his rules

For four hundred years

It's the same story, story

Reading from the same old-fashioned book

Oh hear me now

With this racist and sexist religion, religion

Breeding a generation of crooks

Oh listen now

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

Don't let the reverend turn you to fool

My people

Oh, oh

Run-run, run-run, run-run, run, run, run, run

Don't let him use you...