"Freedom Train" genre: Folk
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	The Freedom Train is a song that speaks to our complacency about the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. Since September 11th, Americans have become aware that we should can no longer take these freedoms for granted but must work together to ensure freedom for us and bring freedom to those around the world.
	Credits: Tom Hokanson
	Story Behind the Song I started writing this song about freedom before September 11, 2001. It was inpired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I finished it after those terrible events which affected us all and the song took a different tone. The recording is a simple guitar and voice recording done in one evening with the help of my friend Brent Karley. Lyrics Freedom Train Word and Music By Tom Hokanson Copyright 2001 by Tom Hokanson We’ve been going too long just coastin’ along Been too many years since we’ve sung this song Nobody should rest ‘til everybody’s been blessed To get on on board that Freedom Train “Thank God Almighty we’re free at last” Is that the voice of the future or just a ghost from the past I see anger and war, we feel hunger and pain And it won’t go away ‘til we come to the day When everybody can say we’re on the Freedom Train Teach all of your children so they’ll understand The healing that must come all across this great land United we stand to let freedom reign To open the door to that Freedom Train Thank God Almighty we’re free and strong And the voice that you’re hearing is Liberty’s song Some buildings may fall but the torch will stand tall And it won’t go away ‘til the end of the age When everybody can say we’re on the Freedom Train So take up the fight, stand up for what’s right ‘Cause God does not care who’s black and who’s white Hold on to your dreams, find out what it means To get on board that Freedom Train If you follow that freedom journey you’ll see that love is flowing Through the walls and over fences we can see where freedom’s going Everywhere the nation’s crying , everywhere the flag is flying God is beside our nation “we shall overcome” Nobody should rest ‘til everybody’s been blessed To get on on board that Freedom Train United we stand to let freedom reign To open the door to that Freedom Train

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