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Thread #26673   Message #322272
Posted By: Haruo
18-Oct-00 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: American Freedom Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: American Freedom Songs
The Flight of the Bumblebee?

(Kidding; just remembering back to when I was a kid boycotting the schools and going to Freedom School at First AME for a couple days to make Open Housing happen. I know we sang a lot, but the only music from that protest that sticks in my mind is whatsisname Siegel, the old First Violin for the Seattle Symphony, coming in and showing us how to play the Flight of the Bumblebee.)

I know we sang stuff like "(Gonna lay down my sword and shield) Down by the Riverside", and "We shall not, we shall not be moved", and "Paul and Silas bound in jail". Speaking of the last, I'm not sure if we sang "If you miss me at the back of the bus" or if I'm just thinking of it because it was on Pete Seeger's Carnegie Hall album along with Paul and Silas. And my pastor says, "Kumbayah" (he's kibitzing). But he's right, we sang that. And lots of Peter Paul & Mary type stuff (This land is your land, if I had a hammer, etc., a lot of it was other people's stuff, from Woody to Dylan, but PP&M were the form I knew it in.)

Liland