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Walking Down That Freedom Highway

from Wage Love by Fred Gillen Jr

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During Occupy Wall Street I was on tour in the midwest. I got a call from a friend saying "some of your folk singing buddies are at Foley Square singing at Occupy Wall Street, where are you?" I told him I was in Michigan. The next day I got to Findlay, Ohio and there were 4 kids occupying a park. I sang This Land Is Your Land with them and one of them said "I can't believe you wrote that song about the freedom highway." I wrote the song around that statement.

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I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
taking my time, taking my time

if you run they get suspicious
if you run they shoot you down
you've got to walk, your head held high
when you're freedom bound

I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
taking my time, taking my time

if you fight then they will beat you
if you fight then you will die
you've got to stand and speak the truth
if you're freedom bound

I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
taking my time, taking my time

if you complain, no one will listen
if you complain no one will care
you've got to work, and do what's right
if you're freedom bound

I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
I'm walking down that freedom highway
taking my time, taking my time

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from Wage Love, released January 27, 2015
Paul J Magliari: drums, Matt Turk: vocals, Laura Bowman: vocals

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Fred Gillen Jr Athens, New York

NYFA grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr has released 12 solo albums, and 6 ep’s, has toured all over the U.S. and Europe solo, and Nepal/ India with Greenheart. His songs have been on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," CMJ, and his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on Pete Seeger's "Pete Remembers Woody." He is also a founding member of THE TRIKE rock trio. ... more

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