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	 "People Got to Be Free"
 — by The Rascals  This was written in reaction to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.  The song obtained a double meaning when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated before the single was released. All the world over, so easy to seePeople 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
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