ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
 
Esta canção é um tributo àqueles envolvidos na batalha por direitos civis. O título se refere a Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. e John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
 
No fim da canção o nome de Bobby é citado. Refere-se a Robert Kennedy, irmão de JFK. Todos os mencionados na canção já faleceram (Lincoln em 1865, John Kennedy em 1963, Martin Luther King e Bob Kennedy em 1968).
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
 
Letra e Música - Dick Holler
 
Intérprete - Jackie "Moms" Mabley
 
1968
 
 
 
 
Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lotta people but it seems the good they die young
 I just looked around and he's gone
 
 


Has anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
 
 
 


Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin Luther?
Can you tell me tell me  where he's gone?
You know he freed a lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, it's gonna be one day

Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John.
 
 
 
Pesquisa e formatação: Ida Aranha