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Lyr Req: fighting for my rights

ossonflags	24 Aug 02 - 03:43 AM
masato sakurai	24 Aug 02 - 08:08 AM
Nigel Parsons	24 Aug 02 - 08:53 AM
ossonflags	25 Aug 02 - 05:20 AM
masato sakurai	25 Aug 02 - 06:11 AM

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Subject: fighting for my rights
From: ossonflags
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 03:43 AM

would anyone have the words to this civil rights song. I believe it was recorded at the 1963 newport folk festival by the freedom singers

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Subject: Lyr Add: FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 08:08 AM

From: Guy and Candie Carawan, eds., Sing for Freedom (Sing Out, 1990, 88-89; with music).

FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS
(This freedom song is an adaptation by Charles Neblett & Charles Wingfield of ther original composition "Lonely Avenue" by Doc Pomus, © 1956 (renewed) Unichappell Music Inc.)

You know I'm tired of segregation
And I want my equal rights
Segregation did me wrong,
Made me leave my happy home.

CHORUS:
That's why I'm fighting for my rights,
Fighting for my rights,
You know I'm fighting for my rights,
(You know I'm) fighting for my rights.

My mother, yeah, she told me
On her dying bed,
Son, if you don't get your freedom
You know I'd rather see you dead.

Well my father, yes, he told me
A long, long time ago,
Son, if you don't fight for freedom
You'll be a slave forever more.

Well-a I want my freedom
And I want it now
And no matter what happens
I'm gonna fight on anyhow.

Well my cell it had two windows
But the sun could never come thru'
And I felt so sad and lonely
You know I didn't know what to do.

Well an old lady told me
And she was very brave
She said before she'll be a slave
She'd be buried in her grave.

~Masato

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: fighting for my rights
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 08:53 AM

Not what was required, but Gilbert O'Sullivan did a suitable song at the top of This Page

Nigel

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: fighting for my rights
From: ossonflags
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 05:20 AM

Masato,

Many thanks for words,that was it exactly.

Nigel,thanks for thread,lots of intresting stuff on there.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: fighting for my rights
From: masato sakurai
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 06:11 AM

Sound clip is HERE (from Newport Broadside: Newport Folk Festival 1963).

~Masato

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