[Verse 1] Somebody cut the king from the picture Somebody moved the knife Somebody gave the coward a kingdom Somebody gave the dead a life Somebody crossed out the witness Somebody changed the date Somebody called the warning a rumor Somebody called the murder fate [Pre-Chorus] And nobody asked who held the pen Nobody asked what came before You can sand the edges off a story Till nobody remembers what they were for [Chorus] We wrote it all down We passed it around Go tell it on the mountain What started as a mystery Now sits on the throne And a story told enough becomes history [Post-Chorus] Go tell it on the mountain Go yell it down the holler Go tell it on the mountain Name yourself a scholar Go tell it to the children Go carve it into stone Go tell it on the mountain Till nobody knows their own [Group vocals] Go tell it Go tell it Go tell it long enough Go tell it Go tell it Go tell it long enough [Verse 2] Somebody painted over the fire Somebody emptied the well Somebody turned a desperate man's hunger Into a story he chose to tell Somebody said the town stood together Somebody said nobody ran Somebody made a hero of a stranger Somebody made a monster of a man [Pre-Chorus] And every mouth became a witness Every witness had a way By the time the last voice told it There was nothing left to say [Chorus] We wrote it all down We passed it around Go tell it on the mountain What started as a mystery Now sits on the throne And a story told enough becomes history [Post-Chorus] Go tell it on the mountain Go yell it down the holler Go tell it on the mountain Tell it like you saw it Go tell it to the children Go carve it into stone Go tell it on the mountain Tell it till it's all you know [Bridge] Ask the woman by the doorway She remembers something else Ask the man who kept the records He remembers someone else Ask the children what they learned They don't know where it began They just know the story happened And the story says it did [Breakdown] Somebody cut the king from the picture Somebody moved the knife Somebody gave the coward a kingdom Somebody gave the dead a life [Final Chorus] We wrote it all down We passed it around Go tell it on the mountain What started as a mystery Now sits on the throne And a story told enough becomes history [Final Post-Chorus] Go tell it on the mountain Go yell it down the holler Go tell it on the mountain Name yourself a scholar Go tell it to the children Go carve it into stone Go tell it on the mountain Till nobody knows their own Go tell it Go tell it Go tell it long enough Go tell it Go tell it Go tell it long enough [Outro] Tell it like you saw it Tell it like you know Tell it till it's history Tell it till it's so
