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Longing To Be Free
Sarah Jane Morris; Tony Remy
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As a child I thought I knew you
Saw the world a moment through you
Or maybe I just felt you in my bones
You and blithe the young and strong in lung
With your banjo and your vocal semitones
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And oh bilingual Ewan
Speaking South Mancunian
Poet of pit head and cinder path
Fluent in old fashioned Gowrie
Glowing with a driven fury
He was burning down with love and righteous wrath
Yes you'd become the bowstring of his soul, his Jane
And he the father of your babies three
Inventors of the writing art of catching what was said
From the living air, the speech was free
Oh half of us are longing to be free
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It's the birthright of all women to be social engineers
You sang that song for us to set us free
And in picket line and chorus we'll be standing with our peers
As leaders, as thinkers, as she
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And yours is the Greenham song wherever peace is waged
For the sisters, love and cups of tea
Bolt cutters, courage, tyranny engaged
Oh half of us are longing to be free
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Yes you'd become the bowstring of his soul, his Jane
And he the father of your babies three
Inventors of the writing art of catching what was said
From the living air, the speech was free
Oh half of us are longing to be free
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You told stories from the land and stories from the sea
And all the while within you, you were longing to be free
One half of humankind being an independent mind
Half of us are longing, half of us are longing to be free
Then I as a singer in a band heard you
Sharing a stage with me
In the name of the martyrs of Peterloo
For the hot metal boys that they chucked on the broom
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Seekers of refuge, mothers of grief
Daughters of fortitude and beggars belief
When love survives but time is a thief
And the ship of fools has struck the reef
Womanhood still battles to be free
Mother Earth is manifest in me
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Did you once hear the fivey song and think it called your name?
Did you once hear the dancing throng to trace your future's frame?
Did hoodie and his twelve string axe your latest love foretell?
And did you think the lost lack would lead you to the well?
Half of us are longing to be free
As the mother cannot help as the starving child weeps
As the cruelties reign, as the mission creeps
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Half of us are longing to be free
And the bodies still pile up in heaps
From the dragon's teeth the sower reaps
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Half of us are longing to be free
For the sisters departed, for the daughters to come
Half of us are longing to be free
For the mothers and children in times of war
Half of us are longing to be free
For all of our sisters all around the world
Half of us are longing to be free
We would like to thank you Peggy Seeger for leading the way
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