Kingdom Coming Songtext
von Pete Seeger

Say brothers, have you seen the master with the mustache on his face
Going ′long the road sometime this morning
Like he's going to leave this place?
He seen the smoke way up the river where the Lincoln gunboats lay
He took his hat and left very sudden and I ′spec he's run away

The master run ha-ha, and we will stay ho-ho
It must be now that kingdom's coming in the year of Jubilee

He′s six foot one way, two foot the other
And he weighed three hundred pound
His coat′s so big he couldn't pay the
Tailor, and it won′t go halfway round
He drills so much they call him captain
And he gets so dreadful tanned
I 'spec he try and fool them Yankees, but I think he′s contraband

The master run ha-ha, and we will stay ho-ho
It must be now that kingdom's coming in the year of Jubilee


Now folks all feel so lonesome living in the log house on the lawn
They move their things to master′s
Parlor for to keep it while he's gone
There's wine and cider in the kitchen and you and me′ll have some
I ′spose they'll all be confiscated when the Lincoln soldiers come

The master run ha-ha, and we will stay ho-ho
It must be now that kingdom′s coming in the year of Jubilee

The overseer he make us trouble and he drive us 'round a spell
So we locked him up in the smokehouse
Cellar with the key thrown down the well
The whip is lost, the handcuffs broken, but the master′ll have his pay
He's old enough, big enough, and ought
To know better than to try and run away

The master run ha-ha, and we will stay ho-ho
It must be now that kingdom′s coming in the year of Jubilee
Oh, the master run ha-ha, and we will stay ho-ho
It must be now that kingdom's coming in the year of Jubilee