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Leader signs verse, campers respond with DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN… All sing chorus
Chorus:
I know it brother, brother,
Indeed, I know it brother, I know it, HEY!
Dem bones gonna rise again…
The lord he thought he’d make a man.
DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN!
So he made Adam cordin’ to a plan.
DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN!
Chorus
Thought he’d make a woman too.
The Lord didn’t know just what to do.
Took a rib from Adam’s side.
For to make Miss Eve, his bride.
Chorus
Put ’em in a garden wide and fair.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Told ’em to eat what they found there.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Peaches, pears, plums and such.
Dem bones gonna rise again
But the apple tree you better not touch.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Repeat chorus
One day Miss Eve was walking around
Dem bones gonna rise again. Spied that tree all loaded down.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Serpent crawling around that trunk.
Dem bones gonna rise again
At miss Eve, his eye he wunk.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Eve, she just took a little pull.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Then she filled her fig leaf full.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Adam, he just took a little bite.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Said um’um woman that sure am nice.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
One day the Lord was walking around.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Spied them peels all over the ground.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
The Lord cried out in his mighty voice.
Dem bones gonna rise again
That shook the heavens to the joists.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Cried, Adam, Adam, Where art though?
Dem bones gonna rise again
Here I is Lord, I’s comin’ now.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Adam, Adam, did you eat these?
Dem bones gonna rise again
No Lord, I ‘spect it was Eve.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Then the Lord rose up in his might wrath,
Dem bones gonna rise again
Said ya’ll just beat it down the path.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Put an angel at the door.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Said ya’ll don’t come ’round here no more.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
Eve took the needle, Adam took the plow.
Dem bones gonna rise again
That’s why we’re all working now.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Chorus
To this tale there ain’t no more.
Dem bones gonna rise again
Eve got the Apple, and Adam got the core.
Dem bones gonna rise again
