"On Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine/And the choirs kept singing of freedom/On Birmingham Sunday a noise shook the ground/And people all over the earth turned around/For no one recalled a more cowardly sound/And the choirs kept singing of freedom"
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Joan Baez Birmingham Sunday 1964
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