On A Highway In Bel Air

 

Freedom Is What We're After

 

Michael Brown Was Gunned Down--Bob A. Feldman

Hiding In The Shade -- Bob A. Feldman

Song for Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick--Bob A. Feldman

He Walked Up the Hill (for MLK)--Bob A. Feldman

`On A Highway In Bel Air' (For Ralph Featherstone and `Che' Payne) folk song lyrics

A protest folk song from 2019 about the explosion on Highway 1 in Bel Air, Maryland that killed two SNCC workers, Ralph Featherstone and William "Che" Payne, on March 8, 1970..

(verse 1)
On a highway in Bel Air in March
Of 1970
A car it exploded
Driving toward Washington, D.C.
Ralph Featherstone and "Che" Payne
Two SNCC workers lay dead
So cops claimed they "carried bombs"
On Route 1 in Maryland.

(chorus)
On a highway in Bel Air
Ralph Featherstone's body torn apart
On a highway in Bel Air
"Che" Payne killed in the dark.

(verse 2)
In a courthouse in Bel Air
A trial they did prepare
Of a former SNCC chairman
The government wanted jailed or dead
They assumed H. Rap Brown
Was in the car they targeted
For their COINTELPRO goal
Was the Movement to behead. (chorus)

(verse 3)
In the car driving from Bel Air
H. Rap Brown was not present
But the blast killed Ralph Featherstone
A key witness in Rap Brown's defense
Arranging security
Was Ralph Featherstone's mission
But he was killed on his way back
To his bookstore in Washington. (chrous)

(verse 4)
On a highway in Bel Air
SNCC said: "It was murder!"
From a bomb planted under the seat
In a SNCC car well-known by police
Though they failed to kill Rap Brown then
For life he was later jailed
And no more than 30 were "Che" and "Feather"
When at midnight they were killed. (chorus)

`Harry T. Moore' folk song lyrics

A folk song from December 2016 to mark the 65th anniversary of assassination of Florida NAACP activist Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, on Christmas night in 1951.

(lyrics)
On Christmas night
In 1951
A bomb it did explode
And in the house above
Sleeping in his bed
Harry T. Moore was killed.

(chorus)
From Mims, Florida
Its NAACP he led
He fought for the right to vote
And against cops killing prisoners.

His wife, Harriette,
Was also
Injured in the blast
And in a hospital
9 days later
She, too, breathed her last. (chorus)

The murder of the Moores
Some called
A lynching of a special kind
And the Florida police
Never did arrest
The assassins who committed this crime. (chorus)

But thousands rose up
To take the place
Of the martyred Harry T. Moore
And they continue to fight
And they won't give up
Until the racist System falls. (chorus)

Yes, on Christmas night
In 1951
A bomb it did explode
And in the house above
Sleeping in his bed
Harry T. Moore was killed.