Let Robeson Sing - Ameritz - Tribute
Where are you now
Broken up or still around
The CIA says you're a guilty man
Will we see the likes of you again
Can anyone make a difference anymore
Can anyone write a protest song
Pinky lefty revolutionary
Burnt at the stake for
A voice so pure a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Went to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoid
No passport 'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USA
Say what you want
Say what you want
A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Now let the Freedom Train
Come zooming down the track
Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black
Not stopping at no stations
Marked colored nor white
Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight
Stopping in the country in the wide open air
Where there never was a Jim
Crow sign
And no lilly-white committees
Politicians of note
Nor poll tax layer through
Which colored can't vote
And there won't be no kinda color lines
The Freedom Train will be yours
And mine
A voice so pure a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Sing it loud sing it proud
I will be heard I will be found
Sing it loud sing it proud
I will be heard I will be found