Black Oak Arkansas Lord Have Mercy On My Soul (introduction) Lyrics

Lord Have Mercy On My Soul (introduction) Lyrics

Now there's somethin' I'd like to talk to you about

 at this particular moment, and that's about the one

 thing that we won't be able to do together. Unless we

 all become as one. And if we all become as one, then

 we can walk thru it together. Now I ain't walked thru

 it all the way yet. But there was a time I walked

 into it, and I had to go into it alone, that's this

 place called the Halls of Karma. Now when you go into

 the Halls of Karma the way I did, I don't know, it

 might have been hallucination, but I think it was

 real. You see I felt the presence of the two energies;

 the positive and the negative; of God and the Devil,

 however you want it. And they were pullin' and

 decidin' and wondering what to do with my soul, and I

 couldn't take this at this moment 'cause I had to come

 back to be with you people to do a thing and I proved

 to 'em, in bargainin' with 'em that I had a thing to

 do for the good of all of us. Out of this bargain,

 the devil, he got my body for the good in his needs

 while I'm here on earth and the Lord, he's got my mind

 for the good of the universe and for the good of man. 

 And they both got me in between 'cause they both got

 my soul. So the next time I come up, I want the Lord

 to, Please have Mercy, On My Soul