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Listen Robert Moses Lyrics
Listen Robert Moses, listen if you can,
It’s all about our neighbourhood that you’re trying to condemn
We aren’t going to sit back and see our homes torn down
So take your superhighway and keep it out of town.
We won’t be moved Buddy we won’t be moved
We’re fighting for our rights and we won’t be moved
We’re fighting for our rights from our heads to our shoes
We’re fighting for our homes and we aren’t going to lose
Listen Robert Moses
Listen well
All that money ya got
Won’t do ya no good in hell
For twenty long years there’s been a shadow hanging round
That any day the bulldozers will knock our houses down
We’re going to lift the shadow once and all for good
We don’t want a superhighway we want a neighbourhood
Some of us are young and some of us are old
But none of us don’t like to be thrown out in the cold
Are we squatters in the city that we are living in?
Will we stand up for our rights or be scattered in the wind?
Listen Robert Moses
Listen well
All that power ya got
Won’t do ya no good in hell
Up and down Mulberry, Delancy Street and Spring
Chrystie and Canal Streets, you hear our voices ring
From Elizabeth to Thompson, to Varrick Street and Broome
We’re trying to save our streets from that superhighway doom
Too many other people have been driven from their doors
To make room for some highway or else some fancy stores
They’ve been forced to leave their homes and all their roots behind
And dwell in housing projects, the reservation kind
So Listen Robert Moses
Listen well
All that money ya got
Won’t do ya no good in hell
It’s time to make a stand, it’s time to try and save
This here neighbourhood of ours b’fore it lands down in the grave
So hold up your banners and raise them to the wind
We’ll stand here and fight, and fight until we win.
Ah come on an’ listen Robert Moses
Please listen well
All that money ya got
Won’t do ya no good in hell
In God we trust, and justice will prevail
And then we’ll be free and ring the Liberty Bell
Lyrics Bob Dylan/Paul Robert Thomas
Music Paul Odiase
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