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Ballad of Martin Luther King

from Beyond The Willow Tree by Cleveland Francis

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    21 track double LP anthology, restored and remastered from the original master tapes by grammy award winning mastering engineer Michael Graves. Includes Francis’ debut release “Follow Me”, as well as a second record featuring unreleased and never before heard covers and demos. Made with a deluxe tip-on gatefold sleeve with liner notes written by Cleveland Francis and Forager Records. Artwork based on the original Follow Me record featuring photos of Francis from the late 60s and early 70s.

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lyrics

In the cool lovin evening,
In a tension southern time
A useless bully was fought and a great man was down
Oh death had come
To take him away
He was done with the troubles of this world and the toils of his day
The winds began to blow
To cover his footprints in the sand
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from Beyond The Willow Tree, released June 15, 2022

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Cleveland Francis Alexandria, Virginia

“These recordings are a look into my soul through a long and lonely journey to
understand feelings of my childhood, poverty, racial segregation, bigotry, war,
love and hope. It represents my attempt to express and come to terms with all that
I have seen and felt as a Black man growing up in America."

- Cleveland Francis ... more

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