“MLK Song” is the twelfth and last track from Livin' On A High Note, twelfth studio album by the legendary American gospel singer Mavis Staples, released on February 19, 2016 under ANTI and Epitaph.
Written by the producer of the record, Matthew Stephen “M.” Ward, the song is a moving tribute to on...
[Verse 1]
If I can help somebody as they pass along
If I can cheer somebody with a word or song
If I can show somebody that their travelling wrong
Then my living will not be in vain
If I can do my duty as a Christian or
If I should sing salvation to the world we rort
If I can spread the message as the master taught
Then my living will not be in vain
[Verse 2]
Well it really doesn't matter, most of the deed's I have done
It really doesn't matter, the prizes I may have won
I'd like for somebody to say I've tried to love someone
When I have to leave my day
And the crawl for justice, I have somebody run
And the walk for the hungry, I fed someone
And in the march for peace tell them I played the drum
When I have to meet my day
And the crawl for justice, I helped somebody run
And the walk for the hungry, I fed someone
And in the march for peace tell them I played the drum
When I have to meet my day
MLK Song was written by M. Ward & Martin Luther King Jr..
MLK Song was produced by M. Ward.
Mavis Staples released MLK Song on Fri Feb 19 2016.