| This song is a train song, it’s a song about a train
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| Not the Atchison, Topeka, not the Chattanooga Choo-Choo
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| Nor the one that leaves at midnight for the state of Alabam'
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| This song is a train song where the engineer is Uncle Sam
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| Here comes the Freedom Train
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| You better hurry down
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| Just like a Paul Revere
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| It’s comin’into your home town
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| Inside the freedom train
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| You’ll find a precious freight
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| Those words of liberty
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| The documents that made us great
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| You can shout your anger from a steeple
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| You can shoot the system full of holes
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| You can always question «We the People»
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| You can get your answer at the polls
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| That’s how it’s always been
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| And how it will remain
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| So long as all of us Keep riding on the Freedom Train
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| You can write the President a letter
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| You can even tell him to his face
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| If you think that you can do it better
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| Get the votes and you can take his place
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| You can hate the laws that you’re obeying
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| You can shout your anger to the crowd
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| We may disagree with what you’re saying
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| But we’ll fight to let you say it loud |