Soap box preacher on a corner And all the they would gather round You speak of faith with a of glory But that fear, they wanna knock you down
Nobody knows where you do you go in the naked night? All of the prophets, they before you They can hear your cry
When you're out there in the night all When staring in the light at the end of the road
In those proud shoes, coming on up the In those shoes, walks all over the sky Then he tipped his hat like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the pass you by"
Heard a bugle blowing in the misty What a haunting sound Times Square Heard of the ghost of 52nd Looked out the but no one was there
Out in the cold Harlem I went searching for minstrel man Played me a song to the pain With the Salvation Band
When out there on the dark all alone When you're in the park at the end of the road
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In those proud shoes, walks all the sky Then he tipped his hat just Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture you by"
In the wilderness and the asphalt jungle He carries his cross of Through the wreckage and the
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In those proud shoes, walks all the sky Then he tipped his hat like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture, let the rapture pass you by let it pass you by Ooh, let it pass you by"