In the Sweet bye and bye

1

Long-haired preachers come out every night

Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right

But when asked how "bout something to eat

They will answer with voices so sweet

 

(Main Chorus)

You will eat, bye and bye

In that glorious land in the sky

Work and pray, live on hay

You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.

 

2

And the starvation army they play

And they sing and they clap and they pray

Till they get all your coin on the drum,

Then they will tell you, you are a bum

 

(Main Chorus)

 

3

If you fight hard for children and wife

Try to get something good in this life

You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell

When you die you will sure go to hell.

 

(Main Chorus)

 

4

Workingmen of all countries unite

Side by side we for freedom will fight

When the world and its wealth we have gained

To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain.

 

(Last Chorus)

You will eat, bye and bye

When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry

Chop some wood, ‘twill do you good,

You you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye.