Tell them tell them,   Tell them the reason why you crying children   Tell them, tell them tell them the   Reason why you she'd those tears   (rep.)     If I never did right or if I   ever did wrong, wrong, wrong,   It's because situation arise   Where things don't seem to belong     Trial and crosses are always   Before me thorns and prickles   in-a my way, my way, my way,   With the task-master always   Behind me, waiting for a chance   To take my life away.     And my burdens, they're getting   Heavy and heavier every day   My burdens, I'm like one who   Labours without no pay   My burdens sweating like a slave to live another day   My burdens, if I didn't follow my   Mind I would be gone astray.     For silver and gold have I none have I none   Silver and Gold have I none have I none   Silver, silver, silver and Gold have I none, have I none   Silver and gold have I none have I none.     So wont you tell them tell them   Tell them the reason why you crying children.   Tell them, tell them, tell them the    Reason why you she'd those tears   (rep.)     Working round the clock and obeying   The gong is like the weak who's   Got to feed the strong   I got to carry my load like a   Child of Israel battering and   Dragging along, along, along.   Blessed is the man who keepeth   his faith, and hope for the   day of his great Redemption   to get away from grief and hate   And into the joys of the sweet liberations.     Slave driver, dry bone crying in the wilderness   Slave driver, only muscle and blood can stand the test (rep.)     Moses Children I know was   In shadows of death the shadows a death   But Moses Children, they rose from strength to strength. (rep.)