My name is Dmitri, I was born a Russian man I was a factory worker, until 1960 and Started teaching the bible, to my two little boys And that’s when the journey began
Well our house became a church And the Sunday school grew Had 150 before we knew it But the KGB didn’t want God around 17 years they locked me up 1,000 miles away
This is my heart song, I will stand and sing For I am a son of the living King So when the fire comes I’ll be rejoicing Even when I suffer I’ll be singing Ooohh Jesus us alive, Ooohh Jesus us alive
Despite 1,500 prisoners, criminal to the core Who’d laugh and curse and bang their cups And try to drown me out Like clockwork every morning with the rising of the sun I’d stand and raise my hands and sing my heart song up to God
Believes stand for what you believe Faint not in adversity If you are cursed for Jesus name Don’t give up! No don’t give up!
Well they tried to break me, but I wouldn’t give in As they came to drag me out for execution I heard a choir of angels, Yah murderers and thieves Those 1,500 criminals had risen up for me They raised their hands and sang the song my Father taught me The sweetest sound I ever heard, Yah I heard freedom ring
