How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972)

How I got over (how I got over)
How I got over (how I got over)
You know my soul looks back and wonder how I got over
How I got over (how I got over)
How I got over (how I got over)
Oh, my soul looks back and wonder how I got over

Just as soon as I see Jesus (oh yes)
The man who made me free (oh yes, oh yes)
He was the man that who bled and suffer (oh yes, oh yes, oh yes)
You know he died for you and for me (oh yes)

I wanna thank ya
Because you brought me 'long (oh yes)
I wanna thank you Jesus, because you taught me (oh yes, oh yes)
I wanna thank you because you kept me (oh yes, oh yes, oh yes)
I'ma thank you 'cause you never left me (oh yes)

I wanna sing (hallelujah)
Ah, I just might shout this evenin'
My soul looks back and wonder
How I got over

(How I got over) over, Lord
(Over) over, Lord!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) Yeah!
(How I got over) how I got over
(How I got over) over, Lord
(Over) over, Lord!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) oh, Lord!
(How I got over) how I got over

One mornin' I'm a wear a diadem
In the New Jerusalem
I'ma walk me some streets of gold
In the homeland of the soul
I'm going to view the host in white
Who travel both day and night
Comin' up from every nation
On the way to the great carnation

I wanna sing (hallelujah)
Ooh, I gotta shout this evening (how I got over)
I'ma thank God for all he's done for me
Yes I am!

(How I got over) over, Lord
(Over) over, Lord!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) Jesus
(How I got over) how I got over
(How I got over) over, Lord!
(Over) oh, Jesus
(My soul just looks back and wonder) oh, yeah
(My soul just looks back and wonder) my soul, yes it do!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) oh
(How I got over) how I got over

I wanna thank you (thank you)
Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)
Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Woah (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)

Thank you for the life (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)
Thank you for the blood (thank you)
I thank you, Lord (thank you)
Thank for them good sisters (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)

I thank you for the brothers (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)
Thank you for just being with me Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, thank you Lord (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)

All day (thank you)
All night (thank you)
All day (thank you)
All night (thank you)
Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)

Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, my Lord (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Mmm, Jesus (thank you)
Mmm, Jesus (thank you)

Jesus (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Jesus! (thank you)
Jesus! (thank you)

Thank you, Jesus (thank you)
Jesus, Lord (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)
Jesus (thank you)
Thank you, Lord (thank you)

I'm gonna sing (hallelujah)
Lord, let me show you (how I got over)
You know my soul looks back and wonder
(How I got over) how I got over

(How I got over) I'm over!
(Over) and I'm on my way!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) oh, yes it do!
(My soul just looks back and wonder) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(My soul just looks back and wonder) oh, yeah
(How I got over) how I got over