Freedom Is What We're After
Bob A. Feldman
An Antiwar and Civil Rights Movement folk song/labor song--whose melody and most of its lyrics were originally written and sung a cappella in Summer of 1965--and to which some new lyrics were added in 2016.
Look out world!
We're coming
We're gonna correct your wrongs.
Look out world!
We're running
From the age of games and songs.
We're young
We're old
And we all shall rebel.
From all
On earth
Which has the stench of hell.
For Freedom is what we're after
From the tyrannies of Man
And war and all injustice
Must be banished from this land.
Look out world!
We're coming
We're gonna correct your wrongs.
Look out world!
We're running
From the age of games and songs.
The sell-outs
The phonies
They've ruined this world quite well.
But we all
Shall create
A land that is ideal.
For Freedom is what we're after
From the tyrannies of Man
And war and all injustice
Must be banished from this land.
Look out world!
We're coming
We're gonna correct your wrongs.
Look out world!
We're running
From the age of games and songs.
Complacent
Professors
And status-quo poets.
Despite all
Your prizes
Your time will soon be up.
For Freedom is what we're after
From the tyrannies of Man
And war and all injustice
Must be banished from this land.