Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
[Verse 1]
Thank You, Master, for my soul
Thank You, Master, thank You for my soul
You gave me food to eat, You put shoes on my feet
And You kept me
Lord, I know, haven't been so good this week
But You continue to bless me, yeah
And I just wanna take time to thank You, for my soul
[Verse 2]
Thank You, Master, thank You for my soul
Lord, thank You, thank You, Master, thank You for my soul, yeah
'Cause You didn't have to hear my moanin'
Lord, You didn't have to hear my groanin'
But You kept me, yeah
You put shoes on my feet, You kept food for me to eat, yeah
And Lord, how You blessed me
But most of all, thank You, Master, for my soul
Thank You, thank You
[Interlude]
That's alright
[Instrumental Break]
[Interlude]
Woo-hoo
[Outro]
Thank You, Master, ha, Lord, thank You for my soul, yeah
Thank You for my hands, thank You for my feet
Thank You, Lord, thank You for my mind
Thank You for my soul
Lord, I know I haven't been so good this week, God
But You kept me
You didn't have to hear my moanin'
You didn't have to hear my groanin', hey, hey, hey, hey
But Lord, You blessed me, ha
And Lord, I wanna thank You
I just got to say "Much obliged" to You, Master
'Cause the walls of my room was not the walls of my grave
My bed was not my cooling board
Y'all don't know what I'm talkin' 'bout
My sheet (My sheet) was not my wind— (Was not my winding sheet)
And I wanna say thank You
(Lord, I wanna thank You) Thank You
(Hey, hey, hey) So much obliged to You
Thank You, thank You, thank You, I wanna thank You, Lord
Hey, hey, thank You for the rain in the storm
Thank You for my mother
I wanna thank You, oh, oh, oh
Lord
Thank You Master (For my Soul) was written by Donny Hathaway.
Thank You Master (For my Soul) was produced by Donny Hathaway & Ric Powell.
Donny Hathaway released Thank You Master (For my Soul) on Wed Jul 01 1970.
Donny Hathaway told Blues & Soul that he’d written this song while studying at Howard University years earlier.
The message was a combination of what I believed in at that time — and basically my beliefs now, I guess — and how I wanted to relate it with the world I was living in. It really only...