Songs That Changed the World: The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era: "People Got to Be Free" by the Rascals

Another of the true greatest songs of the Rock Era with great lyrics and great music.  Like other members of The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era*, it extols the virtue of getting along with our fellow men and women.  And if we all had this attitude, the world would be a much better place.  It's so simple, it is.

"People Got to Be Free" 

by the Rascals

All the world over, so easy to see 
People 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 should 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 
If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand 
All it takes is you to understand and to pull 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 

Get right on board now...


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 


See that train over there?
That's the train of freedom
It's about to ride any minute now
You know it's a long, long overdue
Look out cause it's-a-comin' right on through.