How I Got Over
Mahalia Jackson

How I got over

How did I make it over

You know my soul look back and wonder

How did I make it over

How I made it over

Going on over all these years

You know my soul look back and wonder

How did I make it over


Tell me how we got over Lord

Had a mighty hard time coming on over

You know my soul look back and wonder

How did we make it over

Tell me how we got over Lord

I've been falling and rising all these years

But you know my soul look back and wonder

How did I make it over


But, soon as I can see Jesus

The man that died for me

Man that bled and suffered

And he hung on Calvary


And I want to thank him for how he brought me

And I want to thank God for how he taught me

Oh thank my God how he kept me

I'm gonna thank him 'cause he never left me

Then I'm gonna thank God for 'ole time religion

And I'm gonna thank God for giving me a vision

One day, I'm gonna join the heavenly choir

I'm gonna sing and never get tired


And then I'm gonna sing somewhere 'round God altar

And I'm gonna shout all my trouble over

You know I've gotta thank God and thank him for being

So good to me, Lord yeah

How I made it over Lord

I had to cry in the midnight hour coming on over

But you know my soul look back and wonder

How did I make it over


Tell me how I made it over Lord God Lord

Falling and rising all these years

You know my soul look back and wonder

How did I make it over


I'm gonna wear a diadem

In that new Jerusalem

I'm gonna walk the streets of gold

It's the homeland of the soul

I'm gonna view the host in white

They've been traveling day and night

Coming up from every nation

They're on their way to the great Coronation


Coming from the north, south, east, and west

They're on their way to a land of rest

And they're gonna join the heavenly choir

You know we're gonna sing and never get tired

And then we're gonna sing somewhere 'round God altar

And then we're gonna shout all our troubles over

You know we gotta thank God

Thank him for being so good to me


You know I come to thank God this evening

I come to thank him this evening

You know all all night long God kept his angels watching over me

Early this morning, early this morning

God told his angel God said, touch her in my name

God said, touch her in my name


I 'rose this morning, I 'rose this morning, I 'rose this morning

I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting

I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting, I feel like shouting

I feel like shouting, I just gotta thank God, I just gotta thank God

I just gotta thank God, I just gotta thank him

Thank God for being so good, God been good to me


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The Herald Angels Sing   Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cum...   Have You Any Time For Jesus   Have You Any Time for Jesus?   Have You Anytime For Jesus   He Wants It That Way   He's Got The Whole World In His Hands   He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (Live)   He's My Light   He's Sweet, I Know   He's Got The Whole World In His Hands   He's My Light   He's Sweet, I Know   His Eye Is on the Sparrow   His Eye Is on the Sparrow [#]   His Eye Is on the Sparrow [DVD]   His Eye Is on the Sparrow [Live]   Holy, Holy, Holy   How Great Thou Art   I Believe   I Believe [DVD][Live][*]   I Can Put My Trust in Jesus   I Found the Answer   I Hear Angels   I Thank God For Anything   I Will Move On Up A Little Higher   I Wonder As I Wander   I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About In My Song   I'm Grateful   I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About In My...   If I Can Help Somebody   If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again   If I Could Help Somebody   In My Home over There   In My Home over There [Alternate Take]   In My Home over There [Master]   In The Garden   In the Upper Room   In the Upper Room, Pt. 1   Intro   It Came Upon a Midnight Clear   It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)   It Is No Secret What God Can Do   It Is Well With My Soul   It Took A Miracle   Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho   Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho [#]   Joy To The World   Joy to the World!   Just A Closer Walk With Thee   Just As I Am   Keep Your Hand on The Plow   Like The Breeze Blows   Lord Don't Move The Mountain   Move On Up A Little Higher   Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 1   Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 1 [Alternate Take]   Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 2   Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 2 [Alternate Take]   My Faith Looks Up to Thee   My Faith Looks Up to Thee [DVD]   My Faith Looks Up to Thee [Live]   My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real)   Nearer My God to Thee   Nobody Knows   Nobody Knows [DVD]   Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen   Not My Will   O Come All Ye Faithful   O Come All Ye Faithful [DVD]   O Come, All Ye Faithful [DVD]   O Holy Night   O Holy Night   O Little Town Of Bethlehem   Oh Little Town of Bethlehem   Onward, Christian Soldiers   Power In The Blood   Prayer Changes Things   Rock of Ages   Rock of Ages [Performed Live On the Ed Sullivan Sh...   Rockin In Jerusalem   Rusty Bells   Rusty Old Halo   Satisfied Mind   Silent Night   Silent Night [46Bliss Remix]   Silent Night [DVD]   Silent Night Holy Night   Silent Night, Holy Night   Silver Bells   So We Trust in You [Instrumental]   Somebody Bigger Than You and I   Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child   Spirituals & Hymns   Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)   Summertime   Sweet Little Jesus Boy   Take My Hand Precious Lord   Take My Hand, Precious Lord   Take My Hand, Precious Lord [Mono Version]   That's All Right   That's All Right   The Christian's Testimony   The Green Leaves of Summer   The Holy City   The Lord Is My Light   The Lord's Prayer   The Lord's Prayer   The Upper Room   There Is A Balm In Gilead   There Is A Fountain   There Is Power In The Blood   Trees   Trouble Of The World   Upper Room   Walk In Jerusalem   Walk in Jerusalem [From Divine Secrets of the Ya-Y...   Walk On By Faith   Walk on by Faith [#]   Walk over God's Heaven   Walking to Jerusalem   We Shall Overcome   Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?   Were You There?   Were You There? 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