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[[audience conversations overlap]]

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{SPEAKER name="Samuel Block"}
[[and there is because we believe?]] this we know that we're gonna make the freedom train

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[[audience cheers]]

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[[and there is?]] because we've said this, we're gonna need someone to engineer that's gonna be driving the engine of this train.

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We're here to tell the world that the freedom train is coming

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Although there may be be some doubt in somebody's mind about the freedom train

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They said now the freedom train is coming say, uh, I wanna know a little bit more about the train, say what kind of train is this?

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You said it is a freedom train I wanna know what is the train carrying.

Well see, the train is carrying nothing but freedom,
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so you don't have to worry about what the freedom train is carrying.

Well a lot of people worry say "well will there be any Governor Wallace on this train?"

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"Will there be any Governor Barnetts on this train?"

Well no, there will be no segregation on this train!

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This train is known as the freedom train, the freedom train is coming,

and it's carrying nothing but freedom!

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So we gonna tell Washington that the freedom train is coming, and it's carrying nothing but freedom!

Now we want you to tell [[em? them?]] that!

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It'll be carrying nothing but freedom, freedom, freedom.

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Let's get onboard, get onboard.

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Well you know a lot of people worry, they say "now if the freedom train is coming and you say it's carrying nothing but freedom,

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say, I wanna know a just little bit more about the train.

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Say, I know I haven't done what I should have done a long time ago for the cause of freedom

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but let me tell you. I don't wanna be left when everybody else going on this train.

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I wanna know if there's gonna be any room for my little son.

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Is there gonna be any room for my little daughter that wanna go on this freedom train?

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Will there be any room for my husband?

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See, I know he worked on the plantation real hard all his life.

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I know that he hasn't gone up to register vote as he should've done.

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But lemme tell you. Say I wanna go on the train I wanna carry my whole family.

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Say, I know that, you know, since all the freedom fighters have come together

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and they're fighting for the cause of freedom, say I don't think

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there would be any room for me on this train. But this is the reason

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why I'm coming to ask you, will there be any room for us on this train?"

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Well, yeah, you don't have to worry. We know that you haven't done what you should have done.

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You don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about the train that's coming by the thousand.

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So don't you worry about a thing. If you haven't done anything just come up.

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Cause the train is coming by the thousand.

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It'll be coming by the thousand, thousand, thousand.

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Let's get onboard, oh, get on board.

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You know. down in Mississippi, you know