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price you gotta pay to be free - les mccann lyrics

[intro]
we’d like to do a song written by a young friend of ours
who’s sixteen years old
his name is nat adderley junior
this is called “the price you got to pay to be free”

[verse 1]
master lincoln was the president way back when
he was talking ’bout emanc*p*tion
he didn’t want to give me my freedom then
so he put me on probation
now here we are a century later
just shot down a great emanc*p*tor
you wonder if i’d give my life
to try to save this bullsh*t nation
[chorus]
how much longer will it be?
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
how much longer will it be?
the price you got to pay to be free

[instrumental break]

[verse 2]
well, i been in the jail cell oh so long
how much time must i serve?
tell me, mister president, are you gonna give me
what i want and what i deserve?
’cause if you’re not you better tell me true
i’m gonna fight until you do
then you’re gonna call me a militant
godd*mn, you got your nerve

[chorus]
how much longer will it be? (hey, hey)
oh lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy
lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy
lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy lordy, oh
how much longer will it be? (uh huh)
c’mon, gimme some rhythm y’all
yeah, alright
if you feel like dancing get on up, right on
how much longer will it be?
the price you got to pay to be free
[instrumental break]

[chorus]
how much longer will it be? (yeah, yeah)
the price you gotta pay, yeah yeah yeah
uh, uh
yeah (yeah)
yeah (yeah)
yeah (yeah)
how much longer will it be?
yeah

- les mccann lyrics

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