Thanks, Mick, for posting our song. The Price of Freedom was picked up by international folk radio in January, and became the number one Canadian song on the playlists (mostly in the US) of those who report to the Folk DJ-L list.

Paul and I agonized over the writing of The Price of Freedom. It was by far the greatest challenge I personally have ever faced as a writer, and to see it so wholeheartedly embraced by many American disk jockeys and incorporated by them into their celebrations of Martin Luther King's life and Barack Obama's installation has been an incredibly moving experience.

There were a couple of typos in Mick's paste up, so I'm correcting them here.

Michael, James and Andrew signed on in '64
To register black voters in the savage southern war
Klansmen beat James Chaney bloody on a Mississippi night
Shot and killed the three of them by freedom's flickering light ...

James Chaney, local black kid, Michael Schwerner, New York jew
Andrew Goodman, liberal college boy from among the privileged few
They shared one single aspiration, to give every child a choice
They died outside the promised land,
but they strengthened freedom's voice

*Note to Nomadman: Yes, Dick Farina certainly did write a song that called the boys by their first names, but that was soon after the event. It is my view that the first names dropped out of public awareness by the end of the seventies, and those young martyrs became simply Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney to succeeding generations.

Joanne Crabtree