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