Abraham. Martin, John & Bobby

[wundermaus]

Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seem the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seem the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seem the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be a one day ...

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.

[Lil Missy]

1. mark for later

[ailsagirl]

2. Still gets me after all these years

Thanks for posting

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. I saved this from the Malloy Show years ago...

http://server4.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/bobby.mp3

[wundermaus]

4. Thank you...

Archived and Saved.
Preserved and Cherished.
That their (and our) dreams may yet live.

[SheilaT]

5. In the fall of 1968 I had just moved to the Washington, DC area

and this song was getting a lot of airplay.

It always felt to me as if the first three verses were written just after Martin Luther King was assassinated, and the last one was added after June 6 that year.

When I hear this, I am absolutely back there all those years ago.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. At least 68 ended with this...

[SheilaT]

9. Oh, yeah.

It was a wonderful time. I am glad I was alive, and young then.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I grew up watching rockets launch from my back yard....

Dreams of space travel was unique to my generation.

Which is yet another reason I hated Nixon. He dashed our dreams because he considered them "a Kennedy thing" and he HATED the Kennedy family. All Republicans did. They considered them to be major threat and called them a Dynasty.

[avaistheone1]

7. These men were giants one and all.

K&R

[mazzarro]

8. One nagging question about how the Democratic Party was constituted in earlier years

I am intrigued by the question of how the Democratic party of 1960s and beyond came to be as the amalgam of mostly northern/eastern liberals and old southern conservatives/racists like George Wallace. How and why was the party formed?.
I can begin to understand the party after Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights, but I wonder what held the liberal north and the racist south in the same Democratic party?

[RBInMaine]

11. The Dixiecrats were the old Civil War era Dems. Here is the history:

The old Democratic Party of the early to mid 1800's was the conservative pro-slavery states-rights party. The new Republicans of that time were fiscal conservatives, generally, and American heritage traditionalists but also social moderates and many even anti-slavery social progressives. Of course the old conservative Southern Dixiecrats continued to be Democrats-in-name out of anger at the old Northern Moderate Republicans led by Lincoln who defeated them in the Civil War, ended slavery, and led Reconstruction. They especially hated the Radical Republicans who really wanted to punish the South after the Civil War. Then along came the later 1800's and the 20th century. The Republicans emerged as the party of big business and WASP culture, whereas the Democrats, especially northern Democrats, welcomed the newer immigrants and became the party of labor. At the same time, the DixieCrats remained Democrats in name, though their ideology really aligned with the big business WASP Republicans. Over time, the Dems became more and more the party of labor and minorities with progressive social values, and the R's remained the party of big business and WASP values. With Nixon and his Southern Strategy, he went right after those DixieCrat voters and turned them into full blown Republicans, using Johnson's civil rights laws against the national Dems in that region. DixieCrats converted to become Republicans on the voter registration rolls. Reagan continued the Southern Strategy of conversion, and now they are all registered R's, they control the R party, and they are the bastion of TeaParty thinking and radical right wing ideology in the nation. Problem is, the WASPs are dying off rapidly, and the new demographics are swallowing them up. So, in the 1960's the DixieCrats were really Democrats in name only, remaining registered with the party name because of their old hatred of Lincoln and the early more moderate R's who defeated them in the Civil War, ended slavery, and led Reconstruction which they deeply despised, and old feelings die hard. There were really two Democratic Parties, a northern progressive one and a Southern conservative one, and now those old very conservative DixieCrats are all registered Republicans. It is a neat story showing how political parties evolve and change over time.

[mazzarro]

13. Thanks for the brief history lesson -- n/t

[Window]

10. Thanks wndermaus for sharing this.

This song still gets to me after all these years. Simply beautiful!

[RoccoR5955]

12. There should be another verse added

For John Lennon.