It Feels Like Freedom is Coming

With the historic events of early June, 2008, here in the United States, it feels as if freedom is coming. When I woke up and saw the newspaper headline on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, my initial reaction was: "This is a fine day for freedom." And so I composed this song whose opening lyric is: "Freedom comes on one fine day."

Freedom has many facets. I tried to address many of these in this song. Thanks are owed to YouTube for making it so easy to add the lyrics underneath the song. It took me about two hours to add the lyrics and synchronize them. The process for doing so was rather fun.

The melody for this song, incidentally, is an old English melody from a song titled, "Mary Hamilton." This song also goes by the name Four Marys. The prettiest rendition of this song is by Rebecca Pidgeon. You can hear it on the iTunes Music Store by searching for: Rebecca Pidgeon. Choose her album titled: Four Marys. The eighth track on this album is: The Four Marys

I learned this song from the very wonderful Joan Baez version. Baez knows a thing or two about freedom.

Phil Shapiro
The blogger is an adjunct professor and education-activist in the Washington DC-area. He can be reached at: philshapiroblogger@gmail.com

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