Jimmy Wilson

In Alabama 1958
 The cost of human life is very low
 A man that's black is trampled down
 Just like they were a thousand years ago
 But these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 Five thousand years ago a million men
 Were gathered into royal Egypt's land
 Were bound together, forced to build
 Pyramids of stone in desert sand
 But these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 Mary's son walked through a land of woe
 Dreaming of the world as it could be
 But the good and lawful men of Rome
 Bound him like a robber to a tree
 But these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 In Britain just a hundred years ago
 The jails were full of good and hungry men
 Diggers, fenians, many more
 Fought and died but rose to fight again
 But these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 Last year a negro stole a dollar bill
 The judge he said "We mustn't be severe
 Instead of death we'll give him life imprisonment
 To show there's justice here"
 For these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 And so throughout the ages you have seen
 How progress marches ever on its way
 No rack, no wheel, no Spanish boot
 For Alabama's prisoners today
 For these are more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man may walk his road in peace
 For all are free!
 In these more enlightened days
 No room for all these savage ways
 Leave and let them go
 Now every man should walk his road in peace
 Let man be free!