What Up February Day 5

Thanks to Matt Kaplan for a great post. Everyone get the word out to check out themaassmedia.blogspot.com. Tell your friends; tell your foes; share your good times; express your woes.

Here's an interesting blog also worth checking out. Excellent research, but the white on black print can get to you:

http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com

Back to our February Focus:

I can still hear it in my mind’s ear, Pete Seeger singing, “I ain’t scared o’ yo jails cuz I wan my freedom, I wan my freedom, I wan my freedom…” You'll have to go to You Tube to listen to the protected official Woodstock clip of Richie Havens’ memorable performance at Woodstock with his “Freedom” song that segues into and merges with the classic folk song, “Motherless Child.”

What follows are the lyrics of a freedom song adopted from an African American spiritual, "I Woke Up This Mornin'":

{Well I} woke up this mornin' with my mind
stayed on freedom.
Woke up this mornin' with my mind,
stayed on freedom.
Woke up this mornin' with my mind
stayed on freedom.
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah.

Oh well I walked and talked
talked and walked
with my mind
stayed on freedom.
Walked and talked
talked and walked
with my mind
on freedom.
I walked and talked
talked and walked
with my mind
stayed on freedom.
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah.

Thought for Day 5: Maybe we can’t know the price of freedom until we lose it, or it is taken away.