i stepped into the river sank up to my knees in the mud the preacher man took me under beneath that cleansing flood there was something in the water there was power in the blood for the first time in my life i felt clean chorus clean i felt clean clean i felt clean there was something in the water there was power in the blood for the first time in my life i felt clean i just could not forget it it would not let me be the past was there to haunt me it had its chains on me then the preacher man took me under beneath that cleansing flood for the first time in my life i felt clean repeat chorus oh the blood of jesus oh the blood of jesus oh the blood of jesus that washes white as snow clean i felt clean clean i felt clean clean i felt clean clean i felt clean