Dear Lord

Hey

I wanna go back 40 years ago

When my house caught on fire

Junior, my only son

Anora was my baby

I won't forget, but I told Lord

If you let me, I'll tell the world

How good He is

Well

We went home

That night

Me and my husband

And my two little children

Was in the bedroom

We went to sleep

Ehh, ehh

Three o' clock that morning

The Lord said, get up

Your house is on fire

Your house is on fire

Well, the smoke was so bad

We went back to sleep

I heard a voice

Said, get up

Your house is on fire

My husband

Went to the window

He lift that window up

Put me and my babies outside

Soon he got outside

That house blowed up

All I could do

All I could do

Fell down on my knees

I fell on my knees and told the Lord these words

Dear Lord

You been good to me

Help me girls

(Dear Lord)

Ooh (You've been)

Been good (good to me)

You've been good

You've been good

Ooh (Dear Lord)

You've been (You've been)

You sure have been good (good to me)

Yeah

Y'all know what

We could've been dead

Should've been dead

Sleeping in our graves

But God spoke to Death

He told Death, behave

You got to behave

You got to behave

Leave my child alone

And what I know, dear Lord

You been good to me

Y'all help me, y'all help me

(Dear Lord)

Ooh (You been)

Sure been good (good to me)

Say it again, just one more time

(Dear Lord)

You you (You been)

(Good to me)

I want y'all to help me say this

Thank you Jesus (I thank you Jesus)

Thank you Lord (I thank you Lord)

Thank you Jesus (I thank you Jesus)

I thank you Lord (I thank you Lord)

You let me see one more day (I thank you Jesus)

You let me see one more day (I thank you Lord)

It could've been the other way (I thank you Jesus)

It could've been the other way (I thank you Lord)

It could've been the other way (I thank you Jesus)

It could've been the other way (I thank you Lord)

Thank you Jesus (I thank you Jesus)

Thank you Lord (I thank you Lord)

You sure been good to me (I thank you Jesus)

You sure been good (I thank you Lord)

You sure been good to me (I thank you Jesus)

You sure been good (I thank you Lord)

You been good to me (you been good to me)

You been good to me (you been good to me)

You been good to me (you been good to me)

You been good, oooh

Thank you Jesus (I thank you Jesus, I thank you)

Thank you Jesus (I thank you Lord, I thank you)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank you Jesus, I thank you)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank you Lord, I thank you)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank you Jesus, I thank you)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank you Lord, I thank you)

Come on, Deborah

(I thank you Jesus, I thank you)

(I thank you Lord, I thank you)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank him, I thank him)

Anybody here wanna thank him (I thank the Lord, I thank him)

Could've been dead and gone (I thank him, I thank him)

Could've been dead and gone (I thank the Lord, I thank him)

But the Lord let me live (I thank him, I thank him)

He let me see it longer (I thank him the Lord, I thank him)

I thank him (I thank him)

I thank him (I thank him)

I thank him (I thank him)

I thank him (I thank him)

Do you thank him (I thank him)

Do you thank him (I thank him)

Do you thank him (I thank him)

Do you thank him (I thank him)

Say yeah (yeah)

I thank him (I thank him)

Say yeah (yeah)

I thank him (I thank him)

Say yeah (yeah)

Yeah (yeah)

Yeah (yeah)

Dear Lord

You been good to me

Hallelujah

Somebody shout glory (glory)

Somebody say yeah (yeah)

Somebody say yeah (yeah)

You been good to me (you been good to me)

One more time

Dear Lord

You been good (ooh) to me (you sure been good to me)

Let me hear ya

Let me hear ya

Let me hear ya

Let me hear ya

(Dear Lord)

Ooh (You been good to me)

And again, it could happen y'all

Everytime I think about (Dear Lord)

How good God is (you've been)

It makes me cry (good to me)

When nobody bothers me (Dear Lord)

It makes me run (you been)

With nobody behind me (good to me)

It makes me feel rich, though so many times I don't have a dime

Ahh ya ya ya (Dear Lord, you've been good to me)

(Dear Lord, you've been good to me)

Ooo (Dear Lord, you've been good to me)