Freedom Road

Walkin’ down that freedom road
We’re movin’... chasin’ that dream!
Walkin’ down that freedom road
One step closer to the promise land

Oh momma, it’s been so hard
I look at the world & my heart gets heavy
She says “Child, keep your hands on the plow
We got to make it make a new way!”

Oh Papa, it’s been so long
A voice cries out “You’re just not ready!”
He says ”Keep your eyes on the prize
We’re gonna make it some day!”     

(bridge)  We’re movin’... keepin that fire burnin’
Movin’... Hey, we’re never gonna let it go out!
We‘re movin’... I feel that tide is turnin’
Eyes on the prize...hands on the plow
Come too far to start turnin’ back now
Standin’ on the banks of Jordan
We are wise & strong!  

And now we’re.... (to chorus)

words & music by Reggie Harris  © 2003 ASCAP. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Reggie wrote this song in honor all of the civil rights pioneers from Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass to Fanny Lou Hamer, C.T. Vivian, Rosa Parks and John Lewis who paved the way. They laid their lives on the line to the work we are still doing to gain justice.

It is on his CD "Let My People Go" available at www.reggieharrismusic.com