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Ballad Of Freddie Gray - Studio (Mix 1)
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Hank49 - Original words and music in a variety of styles including Americana, Country, Folk, Blues, Indie, and Rock. Facebook mirror: http://www.faceboo
I am a musician and songwriter (primarily guitar and mandolin, but with amateur forays into banjo, fiddle, concertina, percussion and keyboard), jammer and jam host, recording engineer, producer, studio mole and occasional performer. When I perform solo, I'm hank49. When friends accompany me, we're hank49 and Loose Canon. Loose Canon is an ever shifting assembly of fellow musicians including Tom Edwards, Mitch Prevatte, Brian Chaney, Kevin Chaney, Lena and Jason Redding, Bronson Shanahan, Robert Darlington, Dave Eske, Johnny Decker, John O'hara, John Seay and more.
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #78
Peak in subgenre #13
Author
Michael J Redding
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Michael J Redding
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April 30, 2015
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MP3 10.3 MB • 320 kbps • 4:31
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BALLAD OF FREDDIE GRAY VERSE: What’s that I hear outside my door Marchin’ feet, one, two, three, four It’s the sound of a dead man’s shoes Walkin’ the Freddie Gray Blues Mercy you and mercy me Up and down the street far as I can see Every night and every day Justice for Freddie Gray At twenty-five, he’s just a lad Like you and me, some good, some bad But a Sandtown boy in a Sandtown world’s Lost in Baltimore CHORUS: You felt the fear by the broken glass What have we done? you want to ask By fire and stone you will understand Your life sleeps in your brothers’ hands VERSE: Seems like policemen in this town Think they’re free to hunt the people down But that turned around on that Sunday morn They killed Freddie Gray ‘68, that’s a long time back, but Every 50 years or so somethin’ snaps ‘Cause when a man can’t take no more You’ll hear the lion’s roar Freddie ain’t the first but I hope he’s last ‘Cause the rule of law is made of glass All for one or none for all Again in Baltimore CHORUS: You felt the fear by the broken glass What have we done? you want to ask By fire and stone you will understand Your life sleeps in your brothers’ hands VERSE: That ain’t a threat, man, that’s just a fact You should know by now that’s how people act When in the course of human events There’s too many Freddie Greys CHORUS: There ain’t enough horses and there ain’t enough men And there ain’t enough cops to bring it to an end Your life sleeps in your brothers’ hands Justice for Freddie Gray
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