Just been looking for the civil rights version of the lyrics, and found them thanks to you all. I will be performing this in Liverpool, UK on 25 April 2005. Liverpool was the UK capital of the slave trade, and there is a lecture about contemporary slavery given by the director of Anti-Slavery International. This is part of a series of lectures run by the foundation for citizinship, run by Lord Alton, a Liverpool member of the House of Lords. See www.livjm.ac.uk/citizen although the site is not exactly up to date. I've been asked to sing, being a locally known baritone, born in Nigeria, to where thousands of ships sailed from Liverpool....It will form part of my repertoire from now on.
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