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Artist: Pete Seeger
Canonical path: /pete-seeger/die-gedanken-sind-frei
Related lyric paths: 6
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Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Read Die Gedanken Sind Frei lyrics by Pete Seeger on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Die Gedanken Sind Frei
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Die Gedanken sind frei
My thoughts freely flower,
Die Gedanken sind frei
My thoughts give me power.
No scholar can map them,
No hunter can trap them,
No man can deny:
Die Gedanken sind frei!
I think as I please
And this gives me pleasure,
My conscience decrees,
This right I must treasure;
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator,
No man can deny--
Die Gedanken sind frei!
And if tyrants take me
And throw me in prison
My thoughts will burst free,
Like blossoms in season.
Foundations will crumble,
The structure will tumble,
And free men will cry:
Die Gedanken sind frei!
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Pete Seeger performs "Die Gedanken Sind Frei", and this lyric page sits inside the Pete Seeger catalog on LyroVerse.
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