HOME OF THE BRAVE
The school board says “he can’t come to school, no more”
unless he wears his hair like he wore it before
The PTA and all the mothers, say he ought to look like the others
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
The kids all laugh at his hair and funny clothes
And more than once he’s gone home with a bloody nose
he’s not like them and they can’t ignore it, so they all hate him for it.
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
It really burns me up, when they put him down
He’s the only one whose saying something in this whole town
Instead of all the trouble they hand him, why don’t they try to understand him?
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
he never hurt nobody
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
he’s just a little bit different
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
You got to understand him
why won’t you let him be what he wants to be?
© Mann/Weil
(hør og se den lige her med Jody Miller – den endnu dejligere Spector-flavourede version med Bonnie & The Treasures er desværre ikke på YouTube)
Ja, de brager positivt igennem på vinyl!
Hele den opsamling du skriver om havde de på biblioteket i Viborg – kæmpe musik!
Bonnie & The Treasures version findes bl.a. på 70ér opsamlingen Phil Spector Wall of Sound, vol. 5: Rare Masters, vol. 1 – 150$ på ebay. Er vist aldrig kommet på cd? I øvrigt lød mange af de gamle Spector produktioner bedst på vinyl.