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Thread #155344   Message #3653756
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Aug-14 - 03:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Simple Song of Freedom (Bobby Darin)
Subject: ADD: Simple Song of Freedom
I listened to the Bobby Darin recording on Spotify, and I have a few minor corrections.

SIMPLE SONG OF FREEDOM
(Bobby Darin)

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war

Hey there, Mister Black Man, can you hear me?
I don't want your diamonds or your game
I just want to be someone known to you as me
And I will bet my life you want the same

So come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war

Seven hundred million are you listening?
Most of what you read is made of lies
But speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's sun
To wake to in the mornings when we rise?

So come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here don't want a war

Brother Solzhenitsyn, are you busy?
If not won't you drop this friend a line?
Tell me if the man who is plowing up your land
Has got the war machine upon his mind

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here don't want a war

Now no doubt some folks enjoy doin' battle
Like presidents, prime ministers or kings
So let's all build them shelves
Where they can fight it out among themselves
And leave the people be who love to sing

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here don't want a war

I say, let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere
We, the people here don't want a war

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

[Russian Novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970 for his writings that questioned Soviet government actions]