Where are
you now?
Broken up or
still around?
The CIA says you're
the guilty man
Will we see the
likes of you again?
Can anyone
make a
difference anymore?
Can anyone write
a protest song?
Pinky lefty
revolutionary
Burnt at the
stake for
A voice
so pure
A vision
so clear
I've gotta learn
to live like you
Learn to sing
like you
Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh... ooh..
Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh... ooh..
Went to Cuba
to meet Castro
Never got past
sleepy Moscow
A giant man with
a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned
you paranoid
No passport
'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned
through with hate
Liberty lost still
buried today
Beneath the
lie of the USA
Say what
you want!
Say what
you want!
A voice
so pure
A vision
so clear
I've gotta learn
to live like you
Learn to
sing like you
Now let the
Freedom Train come
zooming down
the track
Gleaming in the
sunlight for
white and black
Not stopping at
no stations marked
coloured nor white
Just stopping in
the fields in the
broad daylight
Stopping in the
country in the
wide open air
Where there never
was a Jim Crow
sign nowhere
And no lilly-white
committees,
politicians of note
Nor poll tax layer
through which
coloured can't vote
And there won't be
no kinda colour lines
The Freedom Train
will be yours
and mine
A voice
so pure
A vision
so clear
I've gotta learn
to live like you
Learn to
sing like you
Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh... ooh..
Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh... ooh..
Sing it loud,
sing it proud
I will be heard,
I will be found
Sing it loud,
sing it proud
I will be heard,
I will be found