We have to forward home
Babylon couldn't be our home
It must be somewhere else
We have to forward ourselves

Cause, we can't get no clothes to wear
We can't get no food to eat
We can't get a job to get bread
That's why we have to

We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home, if we have to run

There'll be no sadness, only gladness
When we reach the Promised Land
We got to leave this land
Find ourselves amongst our people
We all got to be free

Cause, we can't get no clothes to wear
We can't get no food to eat
We can't get a job to get bread
That's why we have to

We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home, if we have to run
We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home, if we have to run

(We got to)
Forward, forward, yeah
Yeah, my people
Forward out of Babylon
Yeah

Cause, we can't get no clothes to wear
We can't get no food to eat
We can't get a job to get bread
That's why we have to

We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home, if we have to run
We got to forward home

There'll be no sadness, only gladness
In the Promised Land
We got to
We got to leave this life
Find ourselves amongst our people
We all got to be free

Cause, we can't get no clothes to wear
We can't get no food to eat
We can't get a job to get bread
That's why we have to

We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home, if we have to run
We got to forward home, if we have to crawl
We got to forward home..