Oh, Yes!
Spiritual
arr. Carol Barnett (b. 1949)
Oh yes! Oh, yes, Lord!
Oh, wait till I put on my robe.
I tell you, brethren, a mortal fact
If you want to go to heav’n,
don’t never look back.
I want to know before I go
Whether you love the Lord or no.
Ever since I have been newly born
I love for to see-a God’s word go on.
I was in the church and prayin’ loud
And on my knees to my Jesus bowed.
Ol’ Satan told me to my face
“I’ll get you when you leave-a this place!”
Oh, brother, that scared me to my heart.
I was afraid to walk when it was dark.
I started home but I did pray,
And I met ol’ Satan on the way.
Il’ Stana mad-a one grab at me
But he missed my soul and I went free.
My sins went lumb’rin’ down to hell,
And my soul went a-leapin’ up Zion’s hill.
If ever I land on the other short
I’ll never come here for to sing no more.
All ‘round my waist a golden band,
And the palms of vict’ry in my hand,
And the golden slippers on my feet.
Gonna walk up and down
that golden street.
— anon. Spiritual
“Oh, Yes!” was performed by the Houston Chamber Choir at Yale University during its 2012 tour of the Northeast.
