if i can help somebody as they pass along if i can cheer somebody with a word or song if i can show somebody that their travelling wrong then my living will not be in vain if i can do my duty as a christian or if i should sing salvation to the world we rort if i can spread the message as the master taught then my living will not be in vain well it really doesn t matter most of the deed s i have done it really doesn t matter the prizes i may have won i d like for somebody to say i ve tried to love someone when i have to leave my day and the crawl for justice i have somebody run and the walk for the hungry i fed someone and in the march for peace tell them i played the drum when i have to meet my day and the crawl for justice i helped somebody run and the walk for the hungry i fed someone and in the march for peace tell them i played the drum when i have to meet my day1