(Nyro wrote this song less that two months after Martin Luther King was murdered and a few day after Robert F Kennedy's assassination.)
Come on, people, come on, children
Come on down to the Glory River
Gonna wash you up and wash you down
Gonna lay the devil down
Gonna lay that devil down
Come on, people, come on, children
There's a King at the Glory River
And the precious King, he loved the people to sing
Babes in the blinkin' sun
Sang, "We Shall Overcome".
I got fury in my soul,
Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more
Save the people!
Save the children!
Save the country now!
Come on, people, come on, children
Come on down to the Glory River
Gonna wash you up and wash you down
Gonna lay the devil down
Gonna lay that devil down
Come on people! Sons and mothers!
Keep the dream of the two young brothers.
Gonna take that dream and ride that dove.
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build a dream with love, children,
We could build the dream with love, oh people,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love
I got fury in my soul,
Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more
Save the people!
Save the children!
Save the country now!
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