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If I Had My Way

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on September 17, 2009

You can't grow up in in the home of a political radical from the 1950s and 60s without hearing Peter, Paul and Mary. I'm very sad to hear of the death of Mary Travis. She raised the roof for freedom and justice her whole career. If there's a heavenly place where great spirits celebrate together Mary is surely whooping it up with them now.

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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’

Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues

James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes