Passing Through
Dick BlakesleeAdditional verse by Civil Rights workers in the 60s. | |
Well I rode with old Abe Lincoln | I heard Martin Luther King |
on that train to Gettysburg, | When he said,"Let freedom ring." |
I asked him "What are we gonna do?" | And he told us of his dream for me and you. |
He said "Every man must be | "Not the colour of your skin |
unconditionally free | But the character within." |
Or there is no reason to be passing through." | He said,"That's what matters while we're passing through." |