Freedom

N.C. Mason Jennings Freedom N.C. tune half step down N.C. Verses just bass playing E E In a market place in old Bombay E The Dalai Lama shot Cassius Clay E I wonder what it is your looking for E And Tony Morrison and Malcolm X E Taught from the trees by their broken necks E I wonder what it is your looking for E And Charlie Parker and Kerouac E Looked into the light until their eyes went black E I wonder what it is your looking for E Aristotle said to Socrates E Even love wants victory E I wonder what it is your looking for N.C. Verses All on E chord E Last night I had the same old dream E I was running through fields of green E Being chased by a little boy with a gun E I turned around and I saw his face E A shot was fired and the dream erased E I woke up burning on a funeral pyre E Standing over me was my only son E Swinging down his hammer 'til his work was done E Turning this body to bones, and these bones to dust E And takin' that dust to an old bird's nest E Out into the water up to his chest E And sinking that birds nest down in a river bed E And I took the river out to the see E Until the storm clouds called for me E And fell like rain on the soft souther soil E And up from the bottom on the first downbeat E Up through the congregations feet E Up like wind that shakes the leaves from the tree E Up through the fingers of the gospel singers E Up through the songs where the dead live on E Up, up, up E E6 What did you lose, my friend E6 E What did you lose, my friend