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Artist: Billy Bragg
Canonical path: /billy-bragg/o-freedom
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O Freedom
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O Freedom
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Policeman broke my door down
Dragged me from my bed
I asked them what was happening
They just ignored the words I said
They waved their guns in my face
Kept screaming out my name
Something terrible had happened and somehow I was to blame
O freedom what liberties have taken in thy name in thy name
O freedom what liberties were taken in thy name.
My accusers formed the jury
The Judge and the defense
The charges were made known to me
But Not the evidence
there was no guilty verdict
Yet still I was detained
Flown to another country where
there methods are less constrained
O freedom what liberties have taken in thy name in thy name
O freedom what liberties were taken in thy name.
In our determination
to defend Democracy
We must not destroy the safeguards
That underpin our Liberty
For who will pay the prices
In justice such as this
Turns our protectors to oppressors
Angry men to terrorists
O freedom what liberties have taken in thy name in thy name
O freedom what liberties were taken in thy name.
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Billy Bragg performs "O Freedom", and this lyric page sits inside the Billy Bragg catalog on LyroVerse.
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