Where are you now?
Broken up or still around?
The CIA says you're a guilty man
Will we see the likes of you again?Can anyone make a difference anymore?
Can anyone write a protest song?
Pinky lefty revolutionary
Burnt at the stake forA voice so pure, a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like youWent to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoidNo passport 'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USASay what you want
Say what you wantA voice so pure, a vision so clear
I gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like youNow, let the Freedom Train come zooming down the track
Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black
Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white
Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylightStopping in the country in the wide open air
Where there never was a Jim Crow sign nowhere
And no lily white committees, politicians of note
Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote
And there won't be no kinda color lines
The Freedom Train will be yours and mineA voice so pure, a vision so clear
I gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like youSing it loud, sing it proud
I will be heard, I will be found
Sing it loud, sing it proud
I will be heard, I will be found