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Abraham, Martin and John Lyrics
Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.
Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.
Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round 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, and it's a-gonna be one day ...
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.
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.
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this song is about the 3 guys abraham lincoln, martin luther king junoir and john f kennedy who all unfortunately got assassinated. this song is a good rememberance of these wonderful people
Abraham, as in Abe Lincoln the great emancipator. Assinated by J.W. Booth.
This song to me has a greater meaning of just being for the good people that die violent senseless deaths. Its a tragedy
We always leave out Bobby from the last verse. Even though the title doesn't include him...
Bobby Kennedy...who also was assasinated (by Sirhan Sirhan)
My parents were baby boomers so they remember the "martin, john, and bobby". Of course they don't remember abraham (lol). I think the meaning is pretty clear - rememberance of people who made history and were assignated. The last part of Bobby alking up over the hill, with Abraham Martin and John, always makes me tear up. I just imagine the three of them waiting, and then Bobby Kennedy comes to join them, and they all turn with our backs to us walk into the light in the distance. There's some really good slideshows to this song on youtube. It's a time period us gen x kids will never know. But we can sure learn from our parents.
This song addresses the pain of a nation during a time of great turmoil. While it deals primarily with the tragic loss of four of our nation's leaders it does address the hope of the future in the bridge:
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, and it's a-gonna be one day ...
Most people that were of radio listening age in 1968 remember this song.
this song is so powerful and yet, so simple - the common bond between Lincoln. King and the Kennedys is that they gave their lives while in service to the people, and all were taken from us while at the height of their powers - their deaths remain the greatest American tragedies, along with the wars and 9/11
The tracks for the song and label were already finished the day that Bobby ( Senator Robert Kennedy, Presidential Candidate) Was shot By Sirhan Sirhan. They went back to the studio late that night/ early in the morning hours and laid down the verse about Bobby that was wrote two hours after he was shot! And the sound that was used to bleed the additional track in is called "Angelic Harps" on a studio Wurlitzer Organ! The final verse didn't make it into the title or the liner notes because that was already to the printers. Many people had said that Bobby would walk into John's foot prints, nobody meant it to be to Assassination!
This song to this day brings back my vivid memories of having watched live on television both Kennedy murders! And I always still have a tear! Scotty
You're old if you remember where you were when the Cuban Missile Crisis alert went up, John Kennedy was shot, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot, The Challenger blew up, and The Trade Towers went down! It's been a lot to watch live on TV each time! Scotty
Abraham - from the bible Martin - MLK, Jr. Bobby - RFK John - JFK
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Uhm...I'm pretty sure that Abraham is Abraham Lincoln. You know, the 16th President who was assassinated in the Ford Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. Uhm, Thanks.
Uhm...I'm pretty sure that Abraham is Abraham Lincoln. You know, the 16th President who was assassinated in the Ford Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. Uhm, Thanks.