He Was My Brother
He was my brother
Five years older than I
He was my brother
Twenty-three years old the day he died
Freedom rider
They cursed my brother to his face
Go home outsider
Mississippi's gonna be your buryin' place
He was singin' 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 was my brother
And he died so his brothers could be free
Oh, God, he died so his brothers could be freeGuitarra: Paul Simon
© 1965 Paul Simon (BMI)
Disco: The Paul Simon Songbook
Comentarios: Canción escrita en memoria de Andrew Goodman, compañero de universidad de Simon (Queen College). Goodman era un activista pro derechos civiles, que fue asesinado en Mississippi en 1964 por el Ku Klux Klan junto con otras dos personas que luchaban por la integración racial.
El crédito de esta canción en el LP original es de "Paul Kane", uno de los alias usados por Paul Simon al principio de su carrera.
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