The Freedom Wind

(Key of G) from the musical play “Abraham” by Ken Bradbury and Robert L. Crowe

Sometimes in the evenin’ When it seems the earth is breathin’ and the stars roll in And the night begins, I feel a breeze start blowin’ And in my heart I’m knowin’ it’s come back again … It’s the Freedom Wind.

Ain’t no one can catch it Ain’t no wind can match it when it’s blowin’ though When it’s callin’ you … And I can’t hardly help it, But feel that wind myself And I call back again … To the Freedom Wind.

(dialogue) I don’t even know what it is I hear in that old Prairie Wind. Maybe I’m daft, but it just sounds like … well, just like it was pullin’ me someplace … somewhere I’d never been before and some place ... some place I just ought to be …

Sometimes when it blows I’ve got a feelin’ that it knows That there’s a place for me … Where I’ve got to be. I feel the breeze around me, and I hear the lonely sounds of “Come and go with me ... the wind that freedom brings.”

Oh well a flood can drown the land, Tear the rocks out from the sand but it goes back again … Oh, it goes back again. And the fire can rage and roll but the flames must all turn cold When the rains come down ... the cooling rains come down. But there’s somethin’ ‘bout the wind that you can’t stop And you can’t bend, and you can’t stay the hand that frees While hatred rages. There ain’t no power on earth that’s like a gift that’s ours from birth And it blows the wind of freedom through the ages!