When burdens seem to overcome there's a higher power Who's able and refusses 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 So sing and shout walk and talk there's a higher power Lay down your soul let Jesus fall there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power Oh, go tell 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 to rest on high there's a higher power Unless they do they'll surely die there's a higher power So sing and shout walk and talk there's a higher power Lay down your soul let Jesus fall there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power So sing and shout walk and talk there's a higher power Lay down your soul let Jesus fall there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power Amen amen, there's a higher power