When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's best When they lay me down to die Goin' on up to the Spirit in the sky Goin' on up to the Spirit in the sky (Spirit in the sky) That's where I'm gonna go when I die (When I die) I'm gonna go

Walk slow and low on a tightrope Hope it lasts but you know, you never know Up high in the middle of nowhere Don't know but you know when you get there You never know Take a chance we can dance up in mid-air Feel so good, I could die, but I don't care

I'll fly away I'll fly away, oh glory I'll fly away in the morning When I die, Hallelujah by and by Some bright morning when this life is over To that home on God's celestial shore When the shadows of this life have gone Like a bird from these prison

Ev'ry time we say goodbye When you're near There's such an air of spring about it I can hear a lark somewhere Begin to sing about it There's no love song finer But how strange the change From major to minor I die a little

But you try, don't you? You try, don't you? Just wanna die, don't you, when she runs? You can't make a woman sleep alone You can't tell her nothing she don't know Take a year and go back home Where the wind comes sweeping through the plains You ain't

Word up (up up) everybody say Word up (up up) it's the code word No matter where you say it you know that you'll be heard When you hear the call you've got to get it on the way Come on baby tell me what's the word Yo pretty ladies around the world Got a

Shot some faith on my darkest places Like a rising sun Filled my heart with a million amazing graces Your voice is like a choir A match that starts a fire Deep down in my bones where only you can go When my soul needs an angel's touch You light it up

Oh why, children send your child off to die In the streets of chalk where they lie Let no wrongs cry out when thugs cry Dear God (When thugs cry) Oh why, does it have to be this way, our Children of today won't stay wise (thugs cry) Let the children hear

Oh Lord, oh Lord Oh Lord, oh Lord, do You see us down here? Sometimes I look up to the sky When I die, put my ashes in the trash bag I don't care where they go Don't waste your money on my gravestone I'm more concerned about my soul Everybody's gon' die

Fly...learn to 'Cause I'm a liar, I conspired, I'm a liar... Fly...wait to Father, tell me somethin' Where do bad men go when they die? And mother says you'll go there but Wings for her and I and I don't mind Cause I have always wanted to learn to...