Simple Song of Freedom

Written by: Bobby Darin
Performed by: Kevin Spacey

Come and sing a simple song of freedom

Sing it like you've never sung before

Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.


Hey there mister black man, can you hear me?

I don't want your diamonds or your game.

I just want to be someone known to you as me

And I will bet my life you want the same.


Come and sing a simple song of freedom

Sing it like you've never sung before

Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.


Seven hundred million are you listening?

Most of what you read is made of lies.

But speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's sun

To wake to in the morning when we rise?


Come and sing a simple song of freedom

Sing it like you've never sung before

Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.


Brother Solzhenitsyn are you busy?

If not won't you drop this friend a line?

Tell me if the man who is plowing up your land

Got the war machine upon his mind.


Come and sing a simple song of freedom

Sing it like you've never sung before

Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.


Now no doubt some folks enjoy doin' battle

Like presidents, prime ministers and kings

So let's all build them shelves

Where they can fight among themselves

Leave the people be who love to sing.


Come and sing a simple song of freedom

Sing it like you've never sung before

Let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.


I said let it fill the air, tell the people everywhere

We the people here don't want a war.

Freedom... Freedom... Freedom

Freedom... Freedom... Freedom.



This 1969 anti-war protest song by Bobby Darin is taken from the 2004 film, Beyond the Sea, directed by Kevin Spacey.  It is also available on the Internet at: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=TiiAqYfVBnw, accessed 09/14/2014.  Reprinted in accordance with the "fair use" provision of Title 17 U.S.C. § 107 for a non-profit educational purpose.  See also: Do You Hear the People Sing?

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