All the world over, | |
So easy to see | |
People everywhere just wanna be free | |
Listen, please listen, | |
That’s the way it should be | |
There’s peace in the valley, | |
People got to be free | |
You should see | |
What a lovely, lovely world this would be | |
Everyone learned to live together, ah hah | |
Seems to me | |
Such an itty bitty thing should be | |
Why can’t you and me learn to love one another? | |
All the world over, | |
So easy to see | |
People everywhere just wanna be free | |
(Wanna be free) | |
I can’t understand it, | |
So simple to me | |
(It is) | |
People everywhere just got to be free | |
If there’s a man | |
Who is down and needs a helpin’ hand | |
All it takes is you to understand and | |
To pull him through, ah hah | |
Seems to me | |
We got to solve it individually, ah ah | |
And I’ll do unto you what you do to me | |
Said, no | |
Hear the shoutin’ from the mountains | |
On out to the sea | |
No two ways about it, | |
People have to be free | |
(They gotta be free) | |
Ask me my opinion, | |
My opinion will be | |
Natural situation for a man to be free | |
Get right on board now, huh, huh | |
Yeah, | |
Oh, what a feelin’s just come over me | |
Love can move a mountain, | |
Make a blind man see | |
Everybody sing it now | |
Come on let’s go see | |
Peace in the valley now, | |
We all can be free | |
See that train over there? | |
Now that’s the train of freedom | |
It’s about to arrive any minute, now | |
You know it’s been’a long, long overdue | |
Look out ’cause it’s a’comin’ right on through | |
Ha, ha, yeah, ha, ha, yeah | |
Performed by: The Rascals | |
Written by: Edward Brigati / Felix Cavaliere | |
[Obviously, the lyrics are not taken from this particular video. The video was selected because I wanted to show the group at that time period. The lyrics are from various other versions – the 45 and other live versions. — kmab] | |
[2022 Note: Since my posting (back in 2018), the original video has been removed on YouTube. The one above is a replacement. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Happy 4th of July 2022!! |
2021 | Happy 4th of July 2021!! |
Self-Control, Liberty And Law | |
2020 | Happy 4th of July 2020!! |
2019 | Happy 4th of July 2019!! |
2018 | Happy 4th of July 2018!! |
People Got to Be Free | |
2017 | Happy 4th of July 2017!! |
2016 | Red, White And Blue BBQ |
Happy 4th of July 2016 | |
IMF’d (Marathon / Binge) | |
2015 | Happy 4th of July 2015!! |
2014 | Happy 4th of July 2014!! |
2013 | Patriot Act, Anyone? |
2012 | Five Lost Wars |
2011 | Worth Fighting For |
2010 | Still Learnin’ Hard… |
4th of July 2010 | |
People Got to Be Free
July 4, 2018 by kmabarrett
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