Alabama '58-Luke Kelly

[ti:Alabama '58] [ar:Luke Kelly] [al:Working Class Hero] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Alabama '58 - Luke Kelly [00:04.20]In Alabama 1958 [00:06.99] [00:07.91]The cost of human life is very low [00:10.66] [00:11.54]A man that's black is trampled down [00:13.38]Just like they were a thousand years ago [00:16.32]But these are more enlightened days [00:18.25]No room for all these savage ways [00:20.01]Leave and let them go [00:23.10] [00:23.75]Now every man may walk his road in peace [00:26.31]For all are free [00:30.04] [00:31.22]Two thousand years ago a million men [00:34.17] [00:34.89]Were gathered into royal Egypt's land [00:38.51]Were bound together forced to build [00:40.44]Pyramids of stone in desert sand [00:43.15]But these are more enlightened days [00:44.95]No room for all these savage ways [00:46.86]Leave and let them go [00:49.85] [00:50.55]Now every man may walk his road in peace [00:53.04]For all are free [00:57.36] [00:58.16]Mary's son walked through a land of woe [01:01.23] [01:01.85]Dreaming of the world as it could be [01:05.03]But the good and lawful men of Rome [01:07.13]Bound him like a robber to a tree [01:09.79]But these are more enlightened days [01:11.64]No room for all these savage ways [01:13.54]Leave and let them go [01:16.55] [01:17.19]Now every man may walk his road in peace [01:19.68]For all are free [01:23.92] [01:24.63]In Britain just a hundred years ago [01:27.37] [01:28.36]The jails were full of good and hungry men [01:31.43] [01:32.07]Diggers fenians many more [01:33.80]Fought and died but rose to fight again [01:36.49]But these are more enlightened days [01:38.25]No room for all these savage ways [01:40.19]Leave and let them go [01:43.24] [01:43.89]Now every man may walk his road in peace [01:46.35]For all are free [01:50.68] [01:51.29]Last year a negro stole a dollar bill [01:54.22] [01:54.97]The judge he said [01:55.83]We mustn't be severe [01:58.56]Instead of death we'll give him life imprisonment [02:01.26]To show there's justice here [02:02.91]For these are more enlightened days [02:04.90]No room for all these savage ways [02:06.83]Leave and let them go [02:09.82] [02:10.51]Now every man may walk his road in peace [02:13.07]For all are free [02:17.78]And so throughout the ages you have seen [02:21.62]How progress marches ever on its way [02:25.18]No rack no wheel no Spanish boot [02:27.08]For Alabama's prisoners today [02:29.81]For these are more enlightened days [02:31.65]No room for all these savage ways [02:33.68]Leave and let them go [02:36.88] [02:37.39]Now every man may walk his road in peace [02:40.00]For all are free [02:42.97]In these more enlightened days [02:44.81]No room for all these savage ways [02:46.73]Leave and let them go