Redemption Song (Featuring Joe Strummer) lyrics

Song information

Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Unearthed

Lyrics

Old pirates, yes, they rob i
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the all mighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom ?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfil the book

So won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
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/Guitar break/
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Old pirates, yes, they rob i
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfil the book
So won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom