Need the lyrics to the cong "If I Can Help Somebody" to give to a 93 year old retired Church musician. I use to have this in sheet music but throught the years, it's misplaced! Please help! Be Blessed!

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2002

Answers

The link below will give you the first verse. Browse to www.google.com (The Google Search Engine) and type in "If I Can Help Somebody" and Search. You'll be suprised how many references you will find to that "song". I believe this is really a poem. My mother used to use it in all her speaches. http://www.inspire21.com/site/stories/help_somebody.html Blessings, Pastor Paris

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2002

"IF I CAN HELP SOMEBODY"

If I can help somebody As I travel along If I can help somebody With a word or song If I can help somebody From doing wrong Then My living shall not be in vain. Then My living shall not be in vain Then My living shall not be in vain If I can help somebody While I'm singing this song Then My living shall not be in vain.

(Mahalia Jackson Lyric's page)

Also, check books on the speeches of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe he was known to recite those lyrics in his speeches.

Sis. Augusta

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

If I can help somebody as I travel along If I can cheer somebody with a word or song If I can show somebody that he's traveling wrong Then my living shall not be in vain

Then my living shall not be in vain Then my living shall not be in vain If I can help somebody as I travel along Then my living shall not be in vain

If I can do my duty as a good man ought If I can bring back beauty to a world up wrought If I can spread love's message that the master taught Then my living shall not be in vain

[repeat refrain]

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2002