Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
There is just one thing that I can't understand about friends
Why some folks think freedom is not designed for all men
There are so many people living their lives perplexed
Wondering in their minds what's gonna happen next
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
Found dead people in the forest
Tallahatchie river and lakes
The whole wide world is wonderin' what's wrong with the United States
Yes we want peace if it can be found
We're gonna stay freedom highway, we're not gonna turn around
And do you (do you) do you think I voted for the right man
Who said we will over come
I march the freedom highway until the day is done
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I'm gonna keep on marching on the freedom highway
And I'm not gonna turn around
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
There is just one thing that I can't understand about friends
Why some folks think freedom is not designed for all men
There are so many people living their lives perplexed
Wondering in their minds what's gonna happen next
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
Found dead people in the forest
Tallahatchie river and lakes
The whole wide world is wonderin' what's wrong with the United States
Yes we want peace if it can be found
We're gonna stay freedom highway, we're not gonna turn around
And do you (do you) do you think I voted for the right man
Who said we will over come
I march the freedom highway until the day is done
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
Marching on the freedom highway
Marching each and every day
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I made up my mind, and I won't turn around
I'm gonna keep on marching on the freedom highway
And I'm not gonna turn around
inviata da Dead End - 29/10/2012 - 14:09
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Album “Freedom Highway”
Scritta da Roebuck "Pop" Staples (1914 –2000), patriarca e membro dei Staples Singers, insieme al figlio Pervis e alle figlie Mavis, Yvonne e Cleotha.
Gli assassini, due bianchi, si chiamavano Roy Bryant e J. W. Milam, il suo fratellastro: furono processati ed assolti, coperti da una bieca campagna di stampa e addirittura dal presidente USA di allora, Dwight D. Eisenhower, che impedì personalmente ogni riapertura di inchiesta e processo, così da non perdere i voti dei suprematisti del Sud. Briant e Milam - che nel 1956 confessarono il delitto in un’intervista rilasciata a “Look” dietro compenso di alcune migliaia di dollari - non si fecero mai nemmeno un giorno di galera.
Intervistato sulla vicenda poco prima della sua morte, avvenuta bel 1994, Bryant dichiarò stizzito e senza ombra di pentimento: "Emmett Till mi ha rovinato la vita. Emmett Till è morto. Io non capisco perchè non possa essere considerato morto punto e basta”.
Il brutale assassinio di Emmett Till fu uno degli eventi chiave che rafforzarono il nascente movimento per i diritti civili statunitense.
Rhiannon Giddens ha reinterpretato questa canzone che è divenuta anche la title-track del suo ultimo album (Freedom Highway, 2017)