The Dubliners - Free The People lyrics

Laws were made for people
And the law can never scorn
The right of a man to be free

Free the people, let them have their say
Free the people
Let them see the light of day

A dismal dawn was breaking when
They took her man away
Not knowing what was his crime
Just what he was guilty of not
One of them could say
But they think of something in time
He says, "Goodbye and remember
We shall overcome"

Comforting her children softly crying
In the night she tries very hard to explain
"You know your daddy never did
A thing that wasn't right
So soon he's bound to be home again
He is a good man and he shall overcome"

But does it profit him, the right to be born
If he suffers the loss of liberty
Laws were made for people and
The law can never scorn
The right of a man to be free
We are the people and we shall overcome

We are the people and we shall overcome!