Oh Freedom! [Live]/Live
Pete Seeger
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One of their greatest songs is also one of the oldest ones
Hundred years ago this song, I think, was put together
And they've simply added some new verses
I hope some of you know it so you can sing it with me
Oh, freedom
Oh, freedom
Oh, freedom over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
(No more slavery)
No more slavery
No more slavery, slavery
No more slavery over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
No more weeping
No more weeping
No more weeping over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
In Albany, Georgia, the chief of police is, uh, Chief Pritchett
No more Pritchett
No more Pritchett
No more Pritchett over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
Come to think of it, maybe I should remind
You that on the twenty-first of this month
The people that really know how to sing
This song 'cause they've been raised to it
The Freedom Singers from Albany, Georgia
Gonna be singing right here at Carnegie
Hall with none other than Mahalia Jackson
So, if you're free on the twenty-first, you ought to come
And it's going to go to a good cause
To help further the things down there
No more segregation
No more segregation
No more segregation over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
(Oh, freedom)
Oh, freedom, freedom
Oh, freedom, freedom
Oh, freedom over me, over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
Oh, now we can sing it, sing that again now, let's hear it
Oh, freedom, freedom
Oh, freedom, freedom
Oh, freedom over me, yeah
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
Jim Forman, take a bow
Over there is Jim Forman of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Mr. James Forman