“Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
Wherever people ain't free.
Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm a-gonna be.”
"Tom Joad" (1940) http://web.archive.org/20020319170819/www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/tomjoad.html, a ballad based on the character Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck <br class="br">Context: p>Ever'body might be just one big soul,<br>Well it looks that a-way to me.<br>Everywhere that you look, in the day or night,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be.Wherever little children are hungry and cry,<br>Wherever people ain't free.<br>Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be.</p
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