I have worked the field, felt the sweat on my brow I've laboured in these ways, kept my hand to the plough And though others fall down right beside me I will keep my head held high and rightly So fight on brother for the things you never had And keep defying the things that held you down I have wrote the pages of an empty heart I've prayed every prayer to the good Lord up above But the whole inside my keeps on calling And the absence of your voice is haunting So fight on brother for the things you never had And keep defying the things that held you down Oh the blessing's on it's way Just around the riverbend Oh the blessing's on it's way Just around the riverbend So fight on brother for the things you never had And keep defying the things that held you down, that held you down So fight on brother for the things you never had And keep defying the things that held you down, that held you down