(Ira and Charlie Louvin)    When burdens seem to overcome there's a higher power   Whose faithful and refuses none there's a higher power   Then why ask men to help you through there's a higher power,   They're helpless pilgrims just like you there's a higher power     Let's sing it shout it walk it talk it   There's a higher power   Lay down your soul 'cause jesus bought it.   There's a higher power     Amen amen there's a higher power   Amen amen there's a higher power     Those men have built these mighty guns   They've built these automobiles that run   But brothers and sisters mark this down   They can't build you no heavenly crown     Go tell them people lost in sin. there's a higher power,   They need not fear the works of men. there's a higher power   Believe in him who rest on high. there's a higher power   Unless they do they'll surely die. there's a higher power     Let's sing it shout it walk it talk it   There's a higher power   Lay down your soul 'cause jesus bought it.   There's a higher power