Freedom Train
Freedom
Train
What is it I hear?
Sounds like a train drawing near.
Ain’t no ordinary train.
It’s the freedom train.
Underground and out of sight.
Comin like a thief in the night.
Freedom train,
Freedom train
Comin round the bend.
Songs of freedom blowin in the wind.
Freedom train, freedom train.
Gonna ride that freedom train.
Freedom train, freedom train.
Nothing will be the same.
Voices whispering in the dark of night,
Don’t go left, go
right.
Bloodhounds drawing near
As if they can smell the fear.
Hush!
Hush!
Don’t make a sound
We will be found.
Can’t get tired now.
Got to keep on going
somehow.
Freedom train,
Freedom train.
Gonna ride that freedom train.
Freedom train,
Freedom train
Comin round the bend.
Songs of freedom blowin in the wind.
Waited so long for this day.
Gonna sing a song of freedom in a land far away.
By and by,
No more tears to cry.
All sorrows passed.
Gonna be free at last.
Freedom train, freedom train
Gonna ride that freedom train.
Those who once came to ride
Have long since died.
I can still hear their spirits calling me.
For what a tragedy
That some had to die and never see
Their dream of freedom become reality.
Wish that they could hear the whistle
Of freedom blowing once again .
Would that I could tell them the suffering
Has come to an end.
All sorrows are passed.
We are free at last.
Freedom train,
Freedom train,
Coming round the bend.
Songs of freedom blowin in the wind.
Freedom train,
Freedom train
Gonna ride that freedom train.
Copyright 2014, by Patricia Newman-Harris, Living the Dream