The freedom train is coming
Can’t you hear that whistle blowing
It’s time to get your ticket y’all
And get on board
It’s time for all the people
To take this freedom ride
Get to get it together
And work for freedom side by side
That’s why I tell you all now
I’m gonna ride this freedom train
I ain’t gonna live this way again
I got to get on the freedom train
From this day on I feel a free man
Yes I will, I feel a free man now
Look back and time has changed a deal
Train awaiting in the station
Going to the mountain top, y’all
And get on board
We’re gonna ride down through the valley
Under the clear blue sky
Every man is gonna walk right proud with his head up high
Come on y’all
We gotta ride that freedom train
We ain’t gonna live this way again
I got to get on the freedom train
From this day on I feel a free man now, yes I will
Yes I feel a free man now
Let’s cry no more
I got my ticket
Gonna get on board
Ride, ride, ride
We gonna ride
We gonna ride
With our heads up high
We gonna move
Gotta keep on moving
Gotta gotta gotta
Keep on moving
Can’t you hear that whistle blowing
It’s time to get your ticket y’all
And get on board
It’s time for all the people
To take this freedom ride
Get to get it together
And work for freedom side by side
That’s why I tell you all now
I’m gonna ride this freedom train
I ain’t gonna live this way again
I got to get on the freedom train
From this day on I feel a free man
Yes I will, I feel a free man now
Look back and time has changed a deal
Train awaiting in the station
Going to the mountain top, y’all
And get on board
We’re gonna ride down through the valley
Under the clear blue sky
Every man is gonna walk right proud with his head up high
Come on y’all
We gotta ride that freedom train
We ain’t gonna live this way again
I got to get on the freedom train
From this day on I feel a free man now, yes I will
Yes I feel a free man now
Let’s cry no more
I got my ticket
Gonna get on board
Ride, ride, ride
We gonna ride
We gonna ride
With our heads up high
We gonna move
Gotta keep on moving
Gotta gotta gotta
Keep on moving
Contributed by Bartleby - 2011/9/21 - 13:24
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Scritta da Steve Bogard, Larry Rogers e Carl Wells.
Canzone fondamentale del periodo della lotta per i diritti civili che utilizza ancora una volta il treno, una delle metafore più diffuse nella musica nera dai tempi dell’ Underground Railroad, ad indicare qui non tanto e non più soltanto la fuga verso la libertà ma l’arrivo imminente di tempi migliori per la popolazione afro-americana.
“Freedom Train” è stato anche il nome di una celebre campagna ferroviaria promozionale dei principi fondanti la patria americana fortemente voluta dal presidene Truman e realizzata tra il 1947 ed il 1949. Su di essa ironizzò amaramente il poeta afroamericano Langston Hughes che fece presente come il tanto decantato Freedom Train avesse carrozze separate per bianchi e neri.