Story Behind The Song

Kembe is from the Sudan where slavery is still a great problem

Song Description

I had the freedom dream One long and lonely night, I?d walked a mountain stream And laid on lofty height, In dreaming, it did seem We slaves did laugh and fly On waking liberty Lay slain in labored fight

Lyrics

I had the freedom dream
One long and lonely night,
I?d walked a mountain stream
And laid on lofty height,
In dreaming, it did seem
We slaves did laugh and fly
On waking liberty
Lay slain in labored fight

And high up in the sky
The great white eagle flies
And as they prophesied
The forlorn infant cries

Oppressors seldom stop
Through simple sanity
Like hellbound juggernauts
They sell us soul and creed
So climb the mountaintops
And sing the soldiers? deeds
In blood and toil they fought
We sing for souls they freed

And high up in the sky
The great white eagle flies
And as they prophesied
The forlorn infant cries

Don?t fight the maiden cries
As slaves be satisfied
But see with clearer eyes
The Sabbath signified
Amazing grace he cries
The savage slaver?s died
Yet through the mirrored sky
The seven soldiers stride

And high up in the sky
The great white eagle flies
And as they prophesied
The forlorn infant cries




Oh, this I will remember
Until my last December
Oh, how we did defend her
And fie no naught surrender

Ice cold on tall Nepal
We fell into despair
Die bold we can forestall
Repel the legionnaire
I strode Valhalla?s hall,
Beheld the heroes there
While old we?ll all recall
We held the hero?s lair

And high up in the sky
The great white eagle flies
And as they prophesied
The forlorn infant cries