From The Book of American Negro Spirituals by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (New York: Viking, 1940).

• Chorus
  Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel
  Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel
  Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel
  Then why not every man?

1. He delivered Daniel from the lions’ den
   Jonah from the belly of the whale
   And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace
   So why not every man.
2. The moon come down in a purple stream
   And the sun forbear to shine
   And every soul that never pray say
   King Jesus shall be mine.
3. I put my foot on the gospel ship
   And the ship it began to sail
   It sailed right over to Canaan’s shore
   And I’ll never come back any more.
5. The wind blows east, the wind blows west
   It blows like the judgment day
   And every soul that never prayed
   Will be glad to pray on that day.