When that trouble is getting hard up here You and I know better to tell there Get on a boat, sail the Jordan and jump in the river and drown Deeper and deeper as my mother shall feel the pain And her child shall gonna leave the sand Get on a boat and jump in the river Get on a boat, get on a boat and jump in the river and drown Well I sing for my sister, trying as we may We've got no place to hide and nowhere to stay Get on a boat, get on a boat and jump in the river and drown My child all the world is yours I want to pray, fight it alone Get on a boat, sail the Jordan and jump in and drown Get on a boat, sail the Jordan, jump in the river and drown