Testo della canzone adattata da un tradizionale Spiritual Americano e cantata dai partecipanti alla marcia per i Diritti Civili da Selma a Montgomery , Alabama , nel 1965.
Nota introduttiva di Len Chandler :
LEN : There is a song called “ I'm gonna do what the spirits say do “. There are lots of people who are saying now ….. What are you gonna do man ? They say , spirits say eat. Yeah know.”
da : RADIO STATION WNEW'S STORY OF SELMA
1965 Folkways Records Album No. FH 5595
Murder on the Roads of Alabama - Len Chandler - 1965
Nota introduttiva di Len Chandler.
"It was on Highway 80 on my way to Selma,when we passed about
30 or 40 police cars and lots of lights and lots of activity and we thought that the car we saw poked half way through a fence off the right side of the road has just been involved in a accident. We uh found out that a lady had been shot to death on Highway 80 ".
da : WNEW's Story of Selma
Civil Rights Movement Archive
https://www.crmvet.org › 65_selma_wnew_liner
Oh, it's murder on the roads of Alabama, (continua)
Testo adattato della traccia cantata dai manifestanti durante la marcia per i Diritti Civili da Selma a Montgomery , Alabama, nel 1965
da: Civil Rights Movement Archive
https://www.crmvet.org › 65_selma_wnew_liner
RADIO STATION - WNEW's Story of Selma, 1965.
With Len Chandler, Pete Seeger and The Freedom Voices
p. 4/8
I Love Everybody.
PETE :There are batches of young women - some of them teenage girls - right in back of where my wife and I were walkin'. They came out with a couple of verses that gave me pause to think and I realize that this March had something unique in the whole world . Anybody in America that thought that this March was full of a bunch of angry people, you know, shouting out malignant thoughts and … on the contrary it was one of the most happy.... purely joyful thing you could imagine. This is what these girls were singing …. (continua)
According to 'Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures' by Pete Seeger this was created by Len Chandler for a 1965 commemoration in NYC of the failed raid on the military arsenal Harpers Ferry in 1859. The song mentions leader of the attack John Brown, who picked up arms in order to defend fugitive slaves. He was arrested, convicted of treason and hanged. comment by Protest Songs on youtube
Mine eyes have seen injustice in each city, town and state (continua)
Nota introduttiva di Len Chandler :
da : RADIO STATION WNEW'S STORY OF SELMA
1965 Folkways Records Album No. FH 5595