Monday, January 17, 2022

Dr. King on the Mountaintop

 Hear my song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hQNMr0A48

Mountain

And/or read:

Well I walked out; I walked out to Pisgah mountain

Well ole Martin Luther King; he’d been up to the mountaintop

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

And ole Moses—he’d been up to the mountaintop 

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

When I reached the top of Pisgah mountain

what did I see? I saw a promised land 

just waitin’ for me, and waitin’ for all of ye.

Well I walked down from the mountain and into the town

Well ole Martin Luther King—he’d been to see the big man

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

MLKing

And ole Moses—he’d been to see the Pharoah.

Yeah, he’d been up there. . . . and I wanted to see what he had seen.

The promised land is what you make it to be!

Struggle . . . struggle to unwind your unconstant state of mind.

Just take a walk up the mountain, my friend

and you will see.

What goes on down in that dirty old town

is bound to be. 

You can make up your mind, my friend

and you can make it up good.

Are you looking for the promised land?

Or are you dying, are you dying, are you dying in a wasteland?

‘cause I may be asking you now; I may be asking you:

But someday, Lord, yeah, He’s gonna ask you too

And what you gonna say, what you gonna say

when my Lord 

comes on that day?

King of Soul

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