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Side By Side - Wilder Adkins

1,732 views · Published 13 May 2015 · 3:38 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: Wilder Adkins · 2015 · Music

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I wanted to write a song from the perspective of someone who was a young person during the pivotal events of the civil rights movement in Birmingham. 

Peace, it don't come easy
Love, it don't come free
Martin Luther King said
Lord, I have a Dream
Boys and girls of every 
color walking side by side
Brother, sister, come on
turn that darkness into light

I was born into the 
heart of Dixie Land
Holy rollers in the
hills of Birmingham
all those summers spent just
chasing lightning bugs by night
heavy stillness in the 
heat of August & July

Lord, a wind was stirring
from the east to west
set my heart a-blazing
deep down in my chest
and I heard that preacher
crying out on 16th street
"Till we all have freedom 
there is no man truly free"

On into September
heard the people say
'things just won't get better'
4 girls died today
but we will rise up singing
truly, We Shall Overcome
and we won't quit singing
till that day of glory comes

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