Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook

He Was My Brother

He was my brother
Five years older than I
He was my brother
23 years old, the day he died

Freedom rider
They cursed my brother to his face
"Go home outsider
Mississippi's gonna be your burying place"

He was singing on his knees
An angry mob trailed along
They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong

He was my brother
Tears can't bring him back to me
He, he was my brother
And he died so his brothers could be free
Oh, God, he died so his brothers could be free



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Writer(s): Paul Kane
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Other Album Tracks

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  2. Leaves That Are Green
  3. A Church Is Burning
  4. April Come She Will
  5. The Sound of Silence
  6. A Most Peculiar Man
  7. He Was My Brother
  8. Kathy's Song
  9. The Side of a Hill
  10. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)

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  5. In the Blue Light
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  8. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
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