People Got To Be Free

All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be Peace in the valley, people got to be free You should see, what a lovely, lovely world this would be If everyone learned to live together It seems to me such an easy, easy thing this would be Why can't you and me learn to love one another All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free I can't understand it, so simple to me People everywhere just got to be free Ah, ah, yeah . . . ah, ah, yeah If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand All it takes is you to understand and to see him through Seems to me, we got to solve it individually And I'll do unto you what you do to me There'll be shoutin' from the mountains on out to sea (out to the sea) No two ways about it, people have to be free (they got to be free) Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be (ah-ha) It's a natural situation for a man to be free Oh, what a feelin's just come over me Enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see Everybody's dancin', come on, let's go see Peace in the valley, now they want to be free --- People Got to Be Free - Martha Reeves