MICHAEL T ROBERTS
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Mass for Freedom

Mass for Freedom

From the spirituals and the Latin Mass
Additional words by Michael T Roberts
 
From the spiritual
From the Mass
By the composer
KYRIE
 
Come by here, oh Lordy, come by here
Oh Lord, come by--
 
Mercy--
            --Oh, Lord
Mercy--
            --Come by here
 
Oh Lord
Oh Jesus
 
Mercy, mercy, mercy
 
Someone’s cryin’, Lordy, come by here 
 
Someone’s cryin’ “hands up, don’t shoot,” Lord
Oh, come by here, Oh Lord
Someone’s chokin’ on bitter fruit, Lord
Oh, come by here, Oh Lord
 
Won’t you come by here, oh Lord
 
Oh Lord
Oh Jesus
 
Mercy, mercy, mercy
 
Someone’s prayin’, Lordy, come by here
Oh Lord, come by here
 
Someone’s praying in a stinking cell, Lord
Oh, come by here, Oh Lord
Someone’s waiting, waiting to hear you, Lord
Oh, come by here, Oh Lord
 
Won’t you come by here, oh Lord
 
Someone’s singing to you….MERCY
Someone’s clinging to you…MERCY
Someone’s pleading with you…MERCY
Bleeding, Lord
Needing the strength to stand up, rise up, high up 
Oh, Lord 
Oh, Jesus 
 
MERCY 
​
AGNUS DEI
 
*Quoted from Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech
 
And in my heart…
Deep in my heart…
I do believe…
Deep in my heart
 
We shall overcome
 
We are not afraid
Though every day brings a new reason
We shall not despair
For we will be our own hope
We are not afraid
With this faith* we shall stand together
 
Deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome
 
We are not alone
All through the darkest of hours
We’ll walk hand in hand
Along the sunlit path*
We are not alone
With this faith* we shall rise together
 
Deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome
 
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world
Have mercy on us
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world
Grant us peace
 
And we shall all be free
We shall all be free someday
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome someday
 
Hallelujah, hallelujah
 
Oh Lord
Oh Jesus
 
Oh, we shall overcome someday 
​
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