"Let Robeson Sing"
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Single by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Know Your Enemy
Released 10 September 2001
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 2000
Genre Alternative, lo-fi
Length 3:46
Label Epic
Writer(s) James Dean Bradfield
Sean Moore
Nicky Wire
Producer Dave Eringa/Mike Hedges
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology
"Ocean Spray"
(2001)
"Let Robeson Sing"
(2001)
"There by the Grace of God"
(2002)

"Let Robeson Sing" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers in 2001 (see 2001 in music), the fourth single to be released from the Know Your Enemy album. All three members of the band - James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire - share the writing credits.

The song is a tribute to the black American actor, singer and civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson.

The CD includes versions of "Masking Tape", "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" - previously sung by Robeson - and a promotional video. The 12" has "Fear Of Motion", a "Let Robeson Sing" Ian Brown mix and a "Let Robeson Sing" Felix Da Housecat Mix.

The single reached number 19 in the UK charts on 22 September 2001, and was their lowest charting single since "She Is Suffering" reached number 25 in 1994.

On the 17th December 2011 Let Robeson Sing was the tenth of 38 songs performed at the one-off 'A Night of National Treasures' live performance at the The O2 Arena (London). The lead vocals were performed by special guest Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals with James Dean Bradfield explaining to the audience that Rhys had been set to perform the song at the bands 2001 performance in Havana, Cuba but that circimstances had prevented this from happening.

Contents

Track listing [link]

CD1 [link]

  1. "Let Robeson Sing" - 3:46
  2. "Masking Tape" - 4:11
  3. "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel (traditional)" - 2:07
  4. "Let Robeson Sing" (video-clip)

CD2 [link]

  1. "Let Robeson Sing" - 3:46
  2. "Let Robeson Sing" (Ian Brown Mix) - 5:01
  3. "Let Robeson Sing" (Felix Da Housecat Mix) - 6:17
  4. "Let Robeson Sing" (Live At teatro Karl Marx, Havana, 17 February 2001)
  5. "Let Robeson Sing" (video from Cuba)

12" [link]

Side A

  1. "Fear of Motion" - 2:46
  2. "Let Robeson Sing" (Ian Brown Mix) - 5:01

Side B

  1. "Let Robeson Sing" (Felix Da Housecat Mix) - 6:17

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Let Robeson Sing

by: Manic Street Preachers

Where are you now?
Broken up or still around?
The CIA says you're a guilty man
Will we see the likes of you again?
Can anyone make a difference anymore?
Can anyone write a protest song?
Pinky lefty revolutionary
Burnt at the stake for
A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Went to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoid
No passport 'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USA
Say what you want
Say what you want
A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Now let the Freedom Train come zooming down the track
Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black
Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white
Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight
Stopping in the country in the wide open air
Where there never was a Jim Crow sign nowhere
And no lilly-white committees, politicians of note
Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote
And there won't be no kinda color lines
The Freedom Train will be yours
And mine
A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Sing it loud, sing it proud
I will be heard, I will be found
Sing it loud, sing it proud




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