Amistad - Freedom

Amistad (1997)set to Richie Havens - Freedom (1969)performed at Woodstock
Lyrics:
Freedom(x8)
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
A long
Way
From my home, yeah
Yeah
Sing
Freedomx10
Sometimes I feel
Like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel
Like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel
Like I'm almost gone, yeah
A long, long, long
Way
Way from my home, yeah
Yeah
Clap your hands(x8)
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I got a telephone in my bosom
And I can call him up from heart
I got a telephone in my bosom
And I can call him up from heart
When I need my brother / (Brother)
Brother / (Brother)
When I need my father / (Father)
Father, hey / (Father)
Mother / (Mother)
Mother, hey / (Mother)
Sister / (Sister)
Yeah / (Yeah)
When I need my brother / (Brother)
Brother, hey / (Brother)
Mother / (Father)
Mother / (Mother)
Mother / (Mother)
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
Songwriters: Michael James Hucknall
Freedom lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

*Base on a true story

*La Amistad -Spanish for Friendship

*A Declaration was signed 1822 by the seven leading powers of the anti-Napoleonic coalition – Austria, Britain, Prussia, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden – as well as France. to abolish Slavery .

*United States v. The Amistad (1841), a symbol in the United States in the movement to abolish slavery.

*While the British colonies abolished slavery completely by 1834, When the gold mines in Puerto Rico were declared depleted, the Spanish Crown give into international movement On slavery was abolished in in Puerto Rico On March 22, 1873, and in Cuba in Oct. 7, in 1886.

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