1 Preachers and teachers would make their appeal,
Fighting as soldiers on great battlefields;
When to their pleadings my poor heart did yield,
All I could say, there is something within.

Refrain:
Something within me that holdeth the reins,
Something within me that banishes pain;
Something within me I cannot explain;
All that I know, there is something within.

2 Have you that something, that burning desire?
Have you that something, that never doth tire?
Oh, if you have it, that heavenly fire,
Then let the world know there is something within. [Refrain]

3 I met God one morn', my soul feeling bad,
Heart heavy laden with a bowed down head;
He lifted my burden and made me so glad;
All that I know, there is something within. [Refrain]