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Freedom Riders (Get on the bus)

from Life is a Laugh by Mumbling Thom

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Written by Thomas E. Amacker

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FREEDOM RIDERS (GET ON THE BUS)


We defy Jim Crow Laws
We call for a massive change
We’re rebels with a just cause
We want Fed’s rules to be rearranged

Get on the bus
Get on the bus
We’re all Freedom riders
Get on the bus
Get on the bus
We’re all Freedom riders

Welcome on board


We want to break our chains
Today we refuse pain
We want to free ourselves
From centuries of slavery

Get on the bus
Get on the bus
We’re all Freedom riders
Get on the bus
Get on the bus
We’re all Freedom riders

Welcome on board


The Freedom Rides are dying to take you away,
To take you away, to take you away


On May 14, Mother's Day
In Anniston, Ku Klux Klansmen
Some still in Church attire
Attacked the ‘Greyhound’ and slashed the tires

First, as the bus burned, the mob tried to hold the doors shut
Then, it took the riders, it beat them in the gut

Later, Eight Klansmen did the same with the ‘Trailways’
They left the Freedom Riders semi-conscious in the back.

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from Life is a Laugh, track released June 1, 2015
Thomas "Mumbling Thom" Amacker - voice, rhythm guitar, e-bow, backing vocals

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