MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Let Robeson Sing lyrics

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Lyrics by nicky wire, music by james dean bradfield and sean moore<br><br>Where are you now? <br>Broken up or still around? <br>The cia says you're a guilty man<br>Will we see the likes of you again? <br><br>Can anyone make a difference anymore? <br>Can anyone write a protest song? <br>Pinky lefty revolutionary<br>Burnt at the stake for<br><br>A voice so pure - a vision so clear<br>I've got to learn to live like you<br>Learn to sing like you<br><br>Went to cuba to meet castro<br>Never got past sleepy moscow<br>A giant man with a heavenly voice<br>Mk ultra turned you paranoid<br><br>No passport 'til 1958<br>Mccarthy poisoned through with hate<br>Liberty lost still buried today<br>Beneath the lie of the usa<br><br>Say what you want<br>Say what you want<br><br>A voice so pure - a vision so clear<br>I've got to learn to live like you<br>Learn to sing like you<br><br>Now let the freedom train come zooming down the track<br>Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black<br>Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white<br>Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight<br><br>Stopping in the country in the wide open air<br>Where there never was a jim crow sign nowhere<br>And no lilly-white committees, politicians of note<br>Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote<br><br>And there won't be no kinda color lines<br>The freedom train will be yours<br>And mine<br><br>A voice so pure - a vision so clear<br>I've got to learn to live like you<br>Learn to sing like you<br><br>Sing it loud, sing it proud<br>I will be here, I will be found<br>Sing it loud, sing it proud<br>I will be here, I will be found