From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: *** P,P & M's No Easy Walk To Freedom *** Lyrics anyone???
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:34:07
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In-reply-to: hauk@andromeda.rutgers.edu's message of 23 Nov 92 16:51:42 GMT

On 23 Nov 92 16:51:42 GMT, hauk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Keira E. Hauk) said:

> Does anyone know where I might find a songbook of Peter Paul and Mary's
> album "No Easy Walk To Freedom?"  I'm especially interested in the songs,
> "No Easy Walk to Freedom" and "El Salvador."  If there isn't a publication
> of the songs, does anyone know them offhand; the music and or the lyrics?

No Easy Walk to Freedom
written by Peter Yarrow and Magery Tabankin
(c) 1986 Silver Dawn Music (ASCAP)

Brother Martin was walking with me
And every step I heard "Liberty"
'Tho he's fallen, come a million behind
Glory hallelujah! Gonna make it this time.

	No easy walk to freedom.
	No easy walk to freedom.
	Keep on walking and you shall be free.
	That how we're gonna make history.

Across the ocean, the bloods running warm
I hear it coming, there's a thundering storm
Just like we lived it, you know that it's true.
Nelson Mandela, now we're walking with you!

	No easy walk to freedom.
	No easy walk to freedom.
	Keep on walking and you shall be free.
	That how we're gonna make history.

In our land, not so long ago
We lived a struggle, and that's how we know
Slavery abolished come in freedom's call.
Keep on walking and apartheid will fall.

	No easy walk to freedom.
	No easy walk to freedom.
	Keep on walking and you shall be free.
	That how we're gonna make history.

Bread for the body, there's got to be
But a soul will die without liberty.
Pray for the day when this trouble is past
Freedom for all. Free at last. Free at last.

	No easy walk to freedom.
	No easy walk to freedom.
	Keep on walking and you shall be free.
	That how we're gonna change history.

	No easy walk to freedom.
	No easy walk to freedom.
	Keep on walking and you shall be free.
	That how we're gonna change history.
	You and me!


El Salvador
written by Noel Paul Stookey and Jim Wallis
(c) 1983 Neworld Media Music (ASCAP)

There's a sunny little country south of Mexico
Where the winds are gentle and the waters flow.
But breezes aren't the only thing that blow
In El Salvador.

If you took the little lady on a moonlight drive
Odds are still good you'ld come back alive.
But everyone is innocent until they arive
In El Salvador.

If the rebels take a bus on the Grand Highway,
	The government destroys a village miles away.
	The man on the radio says now we'll play
	"South of the Border"....
	And in the morning the natives say,
	"We're happy you have lived another day."
	Last night a thousand more passed away
	In El Salvador.

There's a television crew here from A B C
Filming Rio Lempo and the refugees.
Calling murdered children the tragedy
Of El Salvador.

Before the government camera twenty feet away
Another man is asking for continued aid:
Food, and medicine, and hand grenades
For El Salvador.

	There's a thump, a rumble, and the buildings sway
	A soldier fires the acid spray
	The public address system starts to play
	"South of the Border"....
	You run for cover, and hide your eyes
	You hear the screams from paradise
	They've fallen further than you realize
	In El Salvador.

	La, la, la, la,...

Just like Poland is protected by her Russian friends,
The Junta is assisted by Americans.
And if sixty million dollars seems to much to spend
In El Salvador.

They say for, half-a-billion they can do it right.
Bomb all day, and burn all night.
Until there's not a living thing upright
In El Salvador.

	They'll continue training troops in the U S A
	And watch the nuns that got away
	And teach their military bands to play
	"South of the Border"....
	And kill the people to set them free
	Who put this price on their liberty
	Don't you think it's time to leave
	El Salvador?
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