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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tribute to a Great Man
So my mom is a writer and back in the day, she wrote a few songs. After the basement flooded, she gave me her bag of lyrics/tapes and asked if I could arrange or record them. One song, "Tribute to a Great Man," was already written out, so I decided to play/sing it basically as written (a few changes and with much more of a swing to it).
This is a tribute to MLK Jr., Mom submitted the lyrics to the MLK Library and they accepted it. I think she actually got a letter from Loretta Scott King thanking her, or it at least had her signature.
Lyrics and Music by Wendy Klenetsky
Arranged/Performed by Jamie Klenetsky:
He was scorned by many, yet feared not a one.
He knew there'd be trouble, but he had a job to be done.
His people had followed him, marching in herds,
and he'd heightened their spirits with encouraging words.
He said he had a vision, a dream and a plan.
All men would be brothers, not man against man.
He placed freedom before him, and tyranny behind,
and he want5ed to spread brotherhood throughout all mankind.
He said he'd reached the mountaintop, and had seen the other side,
the side where all prejudice and wars would subside.
He knew that by many, so hate'd he'd be,
but he'd want to be hated, if all men be free.
But now gone is the dreamer, and silent his voice.
The decision is ours, now we must make the choice.
But words alone won't end wars, nor will they ease the pain.
If we just do as he advised, he won't have died in vain!
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