All the world over, so easy to see people everywhere just wanna be free,
Listen, please listen – that’s the way it should be,
There’s peace in the valley, people got to be free.
You should see what a lovely, lovely world this would be of everyone learned to live together, oh yeah,
It seems to me such an easy, easy thing it should be, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Why can’t you and me learn to love one another?
Oh yeah.
All the world over, so easy to see people everywhere just wanna be free,
I can’t understand it, so simple to me,
People everywhere just got to be free.
If there’s a man who is down and needs a helping hand, all it takes is you to understand and to pull him through, oh,
It seems to me we’ve got to solve it individually, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I’ll do unto you what you do unto me, oh yeah.
Shout it from the mountain on out to the sea,
No two ways about it, people got to be free,
If you ask my opinion, my opinion will be it’s a natural situation for man to be free.
Oh, he’s got to be free, yeah.
All the world over, so easy to see people everywhere just want to be free,
Listen, please listen – that’s the way it should be,
No two ways about it, people got to be free.
Ah, people gotta be free, yeah,
I said the Lord is bringing freedom, yeah,
I said, do you see the train of freedom?
Ah, it’s gonna come any minute, yeah, (people got to be free)
You know it’s long overdue,
Oh, the train is coming, coming on, (people got to be free)
Jesus, won’t you help us now? (that’s the way it should be)
Yeah, got to be free, yeah.
