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"If I Had a Hammer" Pete Seeger, 1949*Peter, Paul, and Mary also redid this song in 1963

If I had a hammerI'd hammer in the morningI'd hammer in the eveningAll over this landI'd hammer out dangerI'd hammer out a warningI'd hammer out love betweenMy brothers and my sistersAll over this land, uh

If I had a bellI'd ring it in the morningI'd ring it in the eveningAll over this landI'd ring out dangerI'd ring out a warningI'd ring out love betweenMy brothers and my sistersAll over this land, oh

If I had a songI'd sing it in the morningI'd sing it in the eveningAll over this landI'd sing out dangerI'd song of out a warningI'd sing out love betweenMy brothers and my sistersAll over this land, oh

Well, I've got a hammerAnd I've got a bellAnd I've got a song to singAll over this landIt's the hammer of justiceIt's the bell of freedomIt's a song about love betweenMy brothers and my sistersAll over this landIt's a hammer of justiceIt's a bell of freedomIt's a song about love between my brothers and my sistersAll over this land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWTDcP9Y5E

"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" Various Artists and Performances (1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWdDI_fkns

1.

Paul and Silas, bound in jail

Had no money for to go their bail

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on

Hold on, (hold on), hold on, (hold on)

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on!



Paul and Silas began to shout

Doors popped open, and they walked out




Well, the only chains that we can stand

Are the chains of hand in hand


Got my hand on the freedom plow

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now





Keep your Eyes on the Prize, hold on!





Song-specific questions:

1. Who are Paul and Silas? Phone a friend if you need help.

2. What might the artist be suggesting through relating the struggle of African-Americans to the struggle of Paul and Silas?

"We Shall Overcome" Various Artists and Performances (consider Joan Baez's version, 1963)

We shall overcome,

We shall overcome,

We shall overcome, some day.

Oh, deep in my heart,

I do believe


We'll walk hand in hand,

We'll walk hand in hand,

We'll walk hand in hand, some day.


We shall live in peace,

We shall live in peace,

We shall live in peace, some day.


We shall all be free,

We shall all be free,

We shall all be free, some day.


We are not afraid,

We are not afraid,

We are not afraid, TODAY


We shall overcome,

We shall overcome,



I do believe


Song-specific questions:

1. Whats the significance of the phrase well walk hand in hand some day?

2. This song became the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. Why do you think that is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q

Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan (1963)

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a manHow many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand

Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls flyBefore they're forever bannedThe answer, my friend, is blowin' in the windThe answer is blowin' in the wind

Yes, 'n' how many years can a mountain existBefore it's washed to the seaYes, 'n' how many years can some people existBefore they're allowed to be free

Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his headAnd pretend that he just doesn't seeThe answer, my friend, is blowin' in the windThe answer is blowin' in the wind

Yes, 'n' how many times must a man look upBefore he can see the skyYes, 'n' how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cryYes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have diedThe answer, my friend, is blowin' in the windThe answer is blowin' in the wind

Song-specific question:

1. This song is full of symbolism. Can you identify at least two symbols in this song and identify what they stand for?

2. Look at the italicized phrase. What is Dylan implying when he says the word exist?

3. What does Bob Dylan mean when he says the answers are blowin in the wind?

A Change is Gonna Come" Sam Cooke (1964)

I was born by the river in a little tentOh and just like the river I've been running ev'r sinceIt's been a long time, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will


1. Who is his brother and what does he do to him?

3. What has been a long time coming?

It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die'Cause I don't know what's up there, beyond the skyIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

I go to the movie and I go downtownSomebody keep tellin' me don't hang aroundIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Then I go to my brotherAnd I say brother help me pleaseBut he winds up knockin' meBack down on my knees, oh

There have been times that I thought I couldn't last for longBut now I think I'm able to carry onIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

Here's to the State of Mississippi" Phil Ochs (1964)

Here's to the state of Mississippi,

For Underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines,

If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find.

whoa the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes,

the calender is lyin' when it reads the present time.

Whoa here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,

Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to the people of Mississippi

Who say the folks up north, they just don't understand

And they tremble in their shadows at the thunder of the Klan

The sweating of their souls can't wash the blood from off their hands

They smile and shrug their shoulders at the murder of a man

Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of

Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the schools of Mississippi

Where they're teaching all the children that they don't have to care

All the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere

And every single classroom is a factory of despair

There's nobody learning such a foreign word as fair



And here's to the cops of Mississippi

They're chewing their tobacco as they lock the prison door

Their bellies bounce inside them when they knock you to the floor

No they don't like taking prisoners in their private little war

Behind their broken badges there are murderers and more



And, here's to the judges of Mississippi

Who wear the robe of honor as they crawl into the court

They're guarding all the bastions of their phony legal fort

Oh, justice is a stranger when the prisoners report

When the black man stands accused the trial is always short



And here's to the government of Mississippi

In the swamp of their bureaucracy they're always bogging down

And criminals are posing as the mayors of the towns

And they hope that no one sees the sights and no one hears the sounds

And the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown



And here's to the laws of Mississippi

Congressmen will gather in a circus of delay

While the Constitution is drowning in an ocean of decay

Unwed mothers should be sterilized, I've even heard them say

Yes, corruption can be classic in the Mississippi way



And here's to the churches of Mississippi

Where the cross, once made of silver, now is caked with rust

And the Sunday morning sermons pander to their lust

The fallen face of Jesus is choking in the dust

Heaven only knows in which God they can trust



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4

"I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free" Nina Simone (1967)

I wish I knew how

It would feel to be free

I wish I could break

All the chains holding me

I wish I could say

All the things that I should say

Say 'em loud say 'em clear

For the whole round world to hear

I wish I could share

All the love that's in my heart

Remove all the bars

That keep us apart

I wish you could know

What it means to be me

Then you'd see and agree

That every man should be free

I wish I could give

All I'm longin' to give

I wish I could live

Like I'm longin' to live

I wish I could do

All the things that I can do

Though I'm way overdue

I'd be starting anew.

Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky

How sweet it would be

If I found I could fly

I'd soar to the sun

And look down at the sea

And I sing 'cause I know

How it feels to be free


1. Simone uses symbols that bring to mind imprisonment in her song. Identify some of that imagery and explain what you think shes trying to convey (say/show) through those lyrics.

Promised Land Chuck Berry, 1964

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia

California on my mind

I Straddled that Greyhound,

and rolled in into Raleigh and all across Carolina

Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill

And we never was a minute late

We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown

Rollin' out of Georgia state

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle,

Half way 'cross Alabam

And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded

In downtown Birmingham

Right away, I bought me a through train ticket

Ridin' cross Mississippi clean

And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham

Smoking into New Orleans

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana

Just help me get to Houston town

There are people there who care a little 'bout me

And they won't let the poor boy down

Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit

Put luggage in my hands,

And I woke up high over Albuquerque

On a jet to the promised land

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte

Flying over to the Golden State

Oh when the pilot told me in 13 minutes

We'd be headin' in the terminal gate

Swing low chariot, come down easy

Taxi to the terminal zone

Cut your engines, cool your wings

And let me make it to the telephone

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia

Tidewater four ten O nine

Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'

And the poor boy's on the line


1. Whats the significance of the cities that he listed in this song?

2. Look at the italicized lyric. What event do you think he is referencing?

3. To Berry, whats the promised land?

Abraham, Martin, and John - Dion (1968)

Has anybody hereSeen my old friend AbrahamCan you tell me where he's goneHe freed a lot of peopleBut it seems the good die youngI just looked aroundAnd he was gone

Has anybody hereSeen my old friend JohnCan you tell me where he's goneHe freed a lot of peopleBut it seems the good die youngI just looked aroundAnd he was gone

Has anybody here seen my old friend MartinCan you tell me where he's goneHe freed a lot of peopleBut it seems the good die youngI just looked aroundAnd he was gone

Has anybody hereSeen my old friend BobbyCan you tell meWhere he's goneYou see he freed a lot of peopleBut the good they die young yeahI just looked aroundAnd he was goneOh I just looked aroundAnd he was gone!


1. Who are Abraham, Martin, John, and Bobby? (*hint: think politicians for the last two; also, all four were assassinated)

2. What is Dion trying to suggest by referencing those four men in the same song?

Keep on pushin - Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (1964)

Keep on pushing

Keep on pushing

I've got to keep on pushing (mmm-hmm)

I can't stop now

Move up a little higher

Some way, somehow

'Cause I've got my strength

And it don't make sense

Not to keep on pushing

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Keep on pushing

Now maybe some day (mmm-hmm)

I'll reach that higher goal

I know I can make it

With just a little bit of soul

'Cause I've got my strength

And it don't make sense

Not to keep on pushing

Now look-a look (look-a look)

A-look-a yonder

What's that I see

A great big stone wall

Stands there ahead of me

But I've got my pride

And I'll move on aside

And keep on pushing

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Keep on pushing

Keep on pushing, what'd I say

Keep on pushing, well it's all right

Keep on pushing


1. Whats the big stone wall against which he is pushing?

2. What do the adjectives big and stone suggest about the wall?

4.

Im Black and Im Proud James Brown (1968)

Uh! Your bad self!

Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud

Say it louder! I'm black and I'm proud

Look a-here!

Some people say we got a lot of malice, some say it's a lotta nerve

But I say we won't quit movin' until we get what we deserve

We've been buked and we've been scourned

We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you're born

But just as sure as it take two eyes to make a pair, huh!

Brother we can't quit until we get our share

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud

One more time, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud, huh!

I've worked on jobs with my feet and my hands

But all the work I did was for the other man

And now we demands a chance to do things for ourselves

We tired of beatin' our head against the wall

An' workin' for someone else


1. This song was written the same year that MLK, Jr was assassinated (although the song was written after his death). What do you noticed about the tone in this song compared to earlier songs?




Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud, oh!

Ooh-wee, you're killin' me

Alright, uh, you're out of sight!

Alright, so tough you're tough enough!

Ooh-wee uh! you're killin' me! oow!


Say it louder! I'm black and I'm proud

Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves

We tired of beatin' our heads against the wall

And workin' for someone else look a-here

There's one thing more I got to say right here

Now, now we're people, we're like the birds and the bees

We rather die on our feet than keep livin' on our knees

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud huh!

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud huh!

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud, ooh!

Think Aretha franklin (1968)

You better think (think)Think about what you're trying to do to meThink (think, think)Let your mind go, let yourself be free

Let's go back, let's go backLet's go way on back whenI didn't even know youYou couldn't have been too much more than ten (just a child)I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degreesIt don't take too much high IQ'sTo see what you're doing to me

You better think (think)Think about what you're trying to do to meYeah, think (think, think)Let your mind go, let yourself be free

Oh, freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom)Oh, freedom, yeah, freedomFreedom (freedom), freedom (freedom)Freedom, oh freedom

Hey, think about it, think about it

There ain't nothing you could askI could answer you but I won't (I won't)I was gonna change, but I'm notTo keep doing things I don't

You better think (think)Think about what you're trying to do to meThink (think)Let your mind go, let yourself be free

People walking around everydayPlaying games, taking scoreTrying to make other people lose their mindsAh, be careful you don't lose yours, oh

Think (think)Think about what you're trying to do to me, oohThink (think)Let your mind go, let yourself be free

You need me (need me)

And I need you (don't you know)Without each other there ain't nothing people can do, oh

Think about it, baby (What are you trying to do me)

Yeah, oh baby, think about it now, yeahOh, come on, baby

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