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Laws were made for people, the law can never scorn |
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The right of a man to be free |
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Free the people, let them have their say |
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Free the people, let them see the light of day |
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A dismal dawn was breaking when they took her man away |
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Not knowing what was his crime |
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Just what he was guilty of not one of them could say |
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But they think of something in time |
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He says, "Goodbye and remember, we shall overcome" |
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Free the people, let them have their say |
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Free the people, let them see the light of day |
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Comforting her children softly crying in the night |
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She tries very hard to explain |
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"You know your daddy never did a thing that wasn't right |
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So soon he's bound to be home again |
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He is a good man and he shall overcome" |
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Free the people, let them have their say |
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Free the people, let them see the light of day |
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But does it profit him, the right to be born |
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If he suffers the loss of liberty |
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Laws were made for people and the law can never scorn |
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The right of a man to be free |
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We are the people and we shall overcome |
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We are the people and we shall overcome |
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Free the people, let them have their say |
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Free the people, let them see the light of day |
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Free the people, let them have their say |
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Free the people, let them see the light of day |
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Free the people |
