Young people

Welcome to the... ???... heaven... ???... and ministry tonight

Won't you please turn in your hymnals to page 333

Sister mildred, we're gonna play free at last

Free at last, thank god almighty



Free at last, free at last

I thank god i'm free at last

Free at last, free at last

I thank god i'm free at last



[have you heard?]

[listen carefully]

[i can't stop]



(chorus 1)

Free, free, i'm free at last

Thank god almighty i'm free at last

Free, free, i'm free at last

Thank god almighty i'm free



(chorus 2)

Cause i'm free, free at last

And i'm free, from my past, and i'm free

Free from sin, and i'm free

And i ain't going back again



Shackles had me down but he gave me a new sound

So reclaim my name from the lost and found

Ya see, something's got me jumpin'

And i think it's the way

That he can take a hard man

And turn him into soft clay

Out of the darkness, the father has sparked this

The spirit's alive while the flesh is a carcass

If you're seriously curious about my past

Well i once was lost but i'm free at last!



(repeat choruses 1 and 2)



Oppression was in session and my life was the term

But when i heard about the word i was willing to learn

About a flavor i could savor and a brighter tomorrow

Cause this could never be endeavored by a wish on a star

The father first receives us, the truth then frees us

Forgiven, now i'm living like a man full of jesus

It was hell until i fell upon my knees and prayed

But now the yoke that i was totin' has been taken away



(repeat chorus 1)



Cause i'm free, free at last, free

From my past, free from sin, and i'm free

And down on my knees when my life passed me by

And i ain't, no i ain't going back again



F r to the e e

L a to the s t

Out of the darkness, the father has sparked this

The spirit's alive while the flesh is a carcass

If you're seriously curious about my past

Well i was once lost but i'm free at last



I'm here to tell you what he did for me and

I'm here to tell you that he set me free and

I know that he can do the same for you, too

He did it, i'm wit it, so come and get it

Be free at last!



(repeat chorus 1 x2)



When all of god's children: black men and white men,

Jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics

Will be able to join hands and

Sing in the words of the old negro spiritual...



(repeat chorus 1)



Cause i'm free, free at last, cause i'm free

I'm free, i'm free, i'm free, i'm free, i'm free

Down on my knees when my life passed me by

And i ain't, no i ain't going back again

Thank god i'm free



Free at last, free at last

Thank god almighty we are free at last!