No Easy Walk to Freedom
(Peter Yarrow and Magery Tabankin)
Brother Martin was walking with me
And every step I heard "Liberty"
'Tho he's fallen, come a million behind
Glory hallelujah! Gonna make it this time.
No easy walk to freedom.
No easy walk to freedom.
Keep on walking and you shall be free.
That how we're gonna make history.
Across the ocean, the bloods running warm
I hear it coming, there's a thundering storm
Just like we lived it, you know that it's true.
Nelson Mandela, now we're walking with you!
No easy walk to freedom.
No easy walk to freedom.
Keep on walking and you shall be free.
That how we're gonna make history.
In our land, not so long ago
We lived a struggle, and that's how we know
Slavery abolished come in freedom's call.
Keep on walking and apartheid will fall.
No easy walk to freedom.
No easy walk to freedom.
Keep on walking and you shall be free.
That how we're gonna make history.
Bread for the body, there's got to be
But a soul will die without Liberty.
Pray for the day when this trouble is past
Freedom for all. Free at last. Free at last.
No easy walk to freedom.
No easy walk to freedom.
Keep on walking and you shall be free.
That how we're gonna make history.
No easy walk to freedom.
No easy walk to freedom.
Keep on walking and you shall be free.
That how we're gonna change history.
You and me!
Copyright 1986 Silver Dawn Music (ASCAP)
RG
Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!