Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
I’d forsake them all for your sweet kiss
For that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’.

“I believe that a man should be indebted to his neighbors
Not for the reward of Heaven or fear of hellfire.”

“But you don’t understand,” said the white man’s preacher,
“There’s a lot of good ways for a man to be wicked…”

Then they hung Hezekiah high as a pigeon.
White folks around there said, “Well… he had it comin’
‘Cause the son-of-a-bitch never had no religion!”