You got to feed the poor
They're dying every day
If your momma asks you
if you fed the poor
What are you going to say

You got to feed the poor
You must obey
If your pappa asks you
if you fed the poor
What are you going to say

There's a little boy lying on the ground
Too weak to lift his head up
too sick to make a sound
There's a little baby girl with her eyes shut tight
Her body burns with fever
there is no food tonight

You got to feed the poor
You must obey
If the angels ask
if you fed the poor
What would you say

You got to feed the poor

They're dying every day
When Jesus asks you
if you fed the poor
What are you gonna say

They're cutting down the rain forests
so they can feed the cows
Fast food corporations
they got no time for ploughs
The wet lands and the swamp lands
are being drained away
The animals and bird life
they have no place to stay

Insidious conglomerates deny
that they're involved
Offshore phoney shell fronts
make it hard to solve
With a thousand mile of paper trails
winding round and round
While you subpoena affidavits
another million trees comes down

Inner city children
go to school without a meal
They study this great land of ours
it must seem so unreal
In Haiti and in Africa and
in your small town too
There's children starving everywhere
they are watching you

And you got to feed the poor
You got to feed the poor
Gotta feed the poor
Feed the poor