Fixing America In 500 Words Or Less Chapter 28 BROTHER MARTIN click here if song fails to play in 6 seconds Click Here for Music Video of this song        Freedom, freedom, freedom, over me. . .        Was the darkest of many desperate days in nineteen sixty-eight        Before a nation lost her soul in a hail of bullets at Kent State        Like our best friend, in your prime, they had to go and take you down        And I wonder how things would be today if you were still around?               Would mainstream radio still be just as one-sided?               And would a nation called “united” be so divided?               Would there be a nightmare every day somewhere in Iraq?               And would soldiers have their own nightmare who somehow made it                     back?               Would backlash from a clueless Congress still be barely startin'               If you were here with us today, brother Martin?               Would children still be so afraid to go outside and play?               As their future is discarded, would we still look the other way?               Would a president still say, “if you're not with us, you're against us”?               As veterans sittin' in wheelchairs are called “traitors” when they                     protest?               Would World War Three be just a stone's throw away from startin'               If you were here with us today, brother Martin?        Now though we were born with a different shade of skin        Freedom rings within my soul, just like we're next of kin        And before I'll be their slave, I'll be buried in my grave        And gone on to our home. . . free at last * * Dedicated to Coretta Scott King and Yolanda Denise King; for Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice Albertine King.  Intro and final two lines from the slave anthem Oh Freedom; traditional.  "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down their life for their friends." - Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Human and Civil Rights Click Here to Go Back to Contents Click Here to eMail the Author Copyright © December 10th, 2019 by Richard Aberdeen. Copyright © December 10th, 2019 by Freedom Tracks Records. ( including from several earlier copyrights ) No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher and signed by the author. For inquiries, please contact Freedom Tracks Records.  The essays entitled Revolution and Revolution ~ Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced and distributed as desired.