People got to be free (1968)
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1. All the world over, so easy to see,
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people everywhere just wanna be free.
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Listen, please, listen, that's
the way it should be,
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peace in the valley, people
got to be free.
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You should see, what a lovely,
lovely world this would be,
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if everyone
learned to live together.
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It seems to me such an easy,
easy thing this should be,
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why can't you and me learn to
love one another ?
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2. All the world over, so easy to see,
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people everywhere just wanna be free.
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I can't understand it, so simple
to me,
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people everywhere just got to
be free.
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If there's a man who is down
and needs a helping hand,
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all it takes is you to
understand and to pull him through.
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Seems to me, we got to solve
it individually,
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and I'll do unto you what you
do to me.
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3. There'll be shoutin' from the mountains on
out to sea,
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no two ways about it, people
have to be free.
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Ask me my opinion, my opinion
will be,
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it's a natural situation for a
man to be free.
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Oh, what a feelin's
just come over me,
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enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see.
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Everybody's dancin', come on, let's go see,
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peace in the valley, now they
want to be free ….
(orig. = capo 5th) (The
Rascals)