Putting together good freedom-themed songs for July 4. I'd welcome suggestions.
"A Church is Burning" by Simon & Garfunkel ("You can burn down my churches, but I shall be free")
"Hear My Train a Comin'" by Jimi Hendrix ("I hear freedom comin'!")
"My Way" by Los Lonely Boys ("Don't tell me how to live my life / Don't tell me how to pray")
"Someday We'll All Be Free" by Alicia Keys
"None of Us Are Free" by Solomon Burke ("...if one of us is chained")
"Freedom 90" by George Michael ("I don't belong to you and you don't belong to me")
"What if We All Stopped Paying Taxes" by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
"The White Cliffs of Dover" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra ("tomorrow, when the world is free")
"Gravity" by Alison Krauss & Union Station ("And I answer, quite frankly, 'when they stop building roads.'")
"Little Brother" by Albert King ("Now you've got the future, in your hand / Now don't you be no lazy man")
"My Way" by Billy Joel (obviously)
Update: Readers have suggested:
"You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore
"Fourth of July" by Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
"People Gotta Be Free" by Young Rascals
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