Last Christmas...

This is not a carol, but it is heard a lot.

George Michael / Last Christmas (with lyrics)

A different carol

Think about it.

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Here are the lyrics:

Happy Cristmas Yoko

Happy Christmas Julian

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now...

Christmas Time

This is an old speech.

The Thanksgiving Story

Most stories of Thanksgiving history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the Native Americans that took place in the autumn of 1621. Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of a good harvest, and the local natives did participate, this "first thanksgiving" was not a holiday, simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when Pres. Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.

However, since most school children are taught that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 with the Pilgrims and Indians, let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event, and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.

The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast - including 91 natives who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.

Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and

geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl.

Another modern staple at almost every Thanksgiving table is pumpkin pie. But it is unlikely that the first feast included that treat. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There was also no milk, cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, and plums.

This "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. Many years passed before the event was repeated. It wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of thanksgiving was proclaimed. On June 20 of that year the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include Native Americans, as the celebration was meant partly to be in recognition of the colonists' recent victory over the "heathen natives," (see the proclamation). By then, it had become apparent to the settlers that the natives were a hindrance to their quest for more land, so the good will they shared at the first feast had long been lost.

A hundred years later, in October 1777 all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.

George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it. There was discord among the colonies, many feeling the hardships of a few pilgrims did not warrant a national holiday. And later, President Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea of having a day of thanksgiving.

It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine, and later, in Godey's Lady's Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as thefourth Thursday in November.

This video is about the same topic with an interesting ending.

If you want more information, here you have some "Thanks giving Webquests".

Thanksgiving Means More Than Giving Thanks WebQuest: The First Thanksgiving Investigating the First Thanksgiving A Thanksgiving WebQuest The First Thankgiving Feast: a WebQuest A Thanksgiving Dinner Everyone Will "Gobble" Up! Mrs. Inman's Thanksgiving Web Quest The Pilgrim's Journey -- A Child's Adventure

Eurozone Crisis

Read and listen to different accents:

• American accent.

Obama expresses sympathy for

Europe at G20 - video

US president Barack Obama says he is confident Europe will meet the challenge of the crisis and that policymakers must recognise how difficult the situation is. The G20 summit in Cannes has been overshadowed by an unstable Greece and a threatened euro, but Obama said he was impressed by what he heard from European leaders.

• guardian.co.uk,
• Friday 4 November 2011

• British accent.

George Osborne on eurozone crisis talks at G20 summit - video

Chancellor George Osborne, speaking at the G20 summit in Cannes, said the eurozone countries have to safeguard their currency while the G20 countries looked at how to bolster the international financial system, including IMF. He says Greece's future, meanwhile, is in the hands of Greek politicians.

• guardian.co.uk ,
• Viernes 04 de noviembre 2011

• Click on "Link to this video" above and you'll find more politicians from different countries (and different accents) talking about this topic.

Leonard Cohen wins Principe de Asturias award

The iconicLeonard Cohenhas been lauded once again — he is the 2011 recipient for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The annual award is one of eight given by the Principe de Asturias Foundation for achievement in a variety of fields ranging from arts to sciences.Cohen won “for a body of literary work that has influenced three generations of people worldwide through his creation of emotional imagery in which poetry and music are fused in an oeuvre of immutable merit. The passing of time, sentimental relationships, the mystical traditions of the east and the west and life sung as an unending ballad make up a body of work associated with certain moments of decisive change at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century,” the jury stated in its citation.The 76-year-old singer/songwriter/poet/novelist beat a field of 32 contenders from throughout the world. Past winners of the Prince of Asturias awards include Margaret Atwood (2008), Ismail Kadare (2009), Arthur Miller(2002), Woody Allen, JK Rowling and pianist Daniel Barenboim.Recipients of the Asturias Foundation awards receive 50,000 euros ($70,035 CAD), a diploma, insignia and a sculpture designed by Catalan artist Joan Miró. A ceremony honouring the winners takes place in Spain in October.

• If you click here, you will listen to his biography.

• Here is one of his songs.

Listen to it and fill in the gaps of the lyrics ( the words are given).

Sorry for the advertisement previous to the song.

Leonard Cohen - First we take Manhattan por beautifulcynic

These are the missing words:

skin / nights / items / reward / well / spirit / fashion / beauty / twenty / worried / remember / sister / ready

Lyrics:

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN (I'M YOUR MAN)

They sentenced me to .................. years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to ................ them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my .................
I'm guided by the................. of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your ............. and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're ................... that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many ................ I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your .................... business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my ..................
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those ............... that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ..................
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah .................. me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
.................. it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Basque Ceasefire Statement

The full text of Eta's declaration of a 'definitive cessation of its armed activity'

• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 October 2011 19.34 BST

Members of the Basque separatist group Eta make a ceasefire statement, the full text of which is below. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

With this declaration, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, the Basque socialist revolutionary organisation for national liberation, wishes to give news of its decision:

Eta considers that the international conference that has recently taken place in the Basque country is an initiative of enormous significance. The agreed resolution includes all the elements for an integral solution of the conflict, and it has attained the support of a wide spectrum of the Basque society and the international community.

A new political time is emerging in the Basque country. We have an historical opportunity to find a just and democratic solution for the centuries old political conflict. Dialogue and agreement should outline the new cycle, over violence and repression. The recognition of the Basque country and the respect for the will of the people should prevail over imposition.

This has not been an easy road. The cruelty of the fight has taken away the lives of many comrades. Many others are still suffering in prison and in exile. Our recognition and deepest tribute goes out to them.

From here on the road will not be easy either. Facing the imposition that still exists, every step, every achievement, will be the result of the effort and fight of Basque citizens. During these years the Basque country has accumulated the necessary experience and strength to address this path and it also has the determination for doing it. It is time to look at the future with hope. It is also time to act with responsibility and courage.

Therefore, Eta has decided the definitive cessation of its armed activity. Eta calls upon the Spanish and French governments to open a process of direct dialogue with the aim of addressing the resolution of the consequences of the conflict and, thus, to overcome the armed confrontation. Thorough this historical declaration, Eta shows its clear, solid and definitive commitment.

Lastly, Eta calls upon the Basque society to commit to this process until freedom and peace are achieved.

Long live the free Euskal Herria! Long live Basque socialism! No rest until independence and socialism!

Basque country, 20 October 2011

Euskadi ta Askatasuna

Eta

Memorial of Martin Luther

Have things change?

Where King Once Marched, Now a Dedication

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Audience members sang during the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication ceremony on Sunday.

By HELENE COOPER and SABRINA TAVERNISE

Published: October 16, 2011

WASHINGTON — Promising that “change can come if you don’t give up,” President Obama, the man who is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the civil rights movement, on Sunday called on Americans to use the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.to help push for progress in today’s economically tough times.

Speaking at the dedication of the monument to Dr. King on the National Mall, Mr. Obama, at times adopting the cadence of Dr. King, said Americans must celebrate all that the civil rights movement accomplished even as they understand that the work is not done. Standing under the new monument, the first on the mall to honor an African-American, Mr. Obama struck tones that veered from the church pulpit to the floors of the nearby Capitol.

“I know there are better days ahead,” Mr. Obama said, his voice rising. “I know this because of the man towering above me.”

At times, Mr. Obama appeared to be drawing a comparison between himself and Dr. King. Often when he spoke of Dr. King’s struggles, it was impossible not to think that he was speaking of himself.

“For every victory, there were setbacks,” Mr. Obama said. “Even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many.”

He continued, “He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast and by those who felt he was going too slow.”

Mr. Obama’s speech culminated a morning — beautifully sunny and bright on the Washington Mall — during which a lion’s gallery of civil rights and black leaders stood on the podium to hail that a preacher of no rank had joined Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt to be memorialized into perpetuity in the National Mall area. Thousands of people crowded the mall for the festivities, which were rescheduled after Hurricane Irene canceled the initial plans.

The memorial — a four-acre tract along the Tidal Basin that is dotted with elm and cherry trees and anchored by an imposing granite statue of Dr. King — is the result of more than two decades of work. It was originally scheduled to be dedicated in August to coincide with the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.

The expansive three-hour ceremony included speeches by civil rights leaders like Representative John Lewis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and songs by performers like Aretha Franklin.

People came from all over for the event. Yvonne Binis took an early morning train with her 4-year-old grandson from Linden, N.J. Ms. Binis’s mother had been part of the March on Washington, and she said she came in honor of that.

“I’m here to see what she came down for,” Ms. Binis said, carrying a large folding chair in a backpack.

Some in the crowd remembered their childhoods in the Jim Crow South. Carolyn Bledsoe, 70, recalled the shame of being turned away from a restaurant in Goldsboro, N.C., in the 1950s, because she was black. “We got very scared,” she said, sitting in a blue dress jacket and a white baseball cap, with an insignia of the memorial on it. “We thought we might be followed.”

Mr. Obama is facing stiff challenges in his bid for re-election next year, particularly as the country is grappling with a 9.1 percent unemployment rate and a global economy that is reeling.

He urged patience. “Change depends on persistence,” Mr. Obama said. “When met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr. King refused to accept what he called the ‘is-ness’ of today,” Mr. Obama said. “He kept pushing towards the ‘oughtness’ of tomorrow.”

Mr. Obama said that “when we think of all the work that we must do,” including rebuilding the economy and fixing ailing schools, “we can’t be discouraged by what is; we’ve got to be pushing for what ought to be.”

The monument is not only the first to a black man on the mall and its adjoining parks but also the first to honor someone who was not a president, according to the foundation in charge of putting it up, something that has been an inspiration to many.

“I drive past the mall every day, and to see that Martin Luther King is now there with Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt — that is powerful,” said Lonnie Bunch, a founding director of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

Dr. King’s stone figure faces the Jefferson Memorial across the water. Lincoln is at his back, and Roosevelt to his right.

The design gave form to a line from Dr. King’s “Dream” speech — “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” In the statue, he is emerging from a large piece of stone. Two towering granite mounds set behind him are the mountains of despair.

Mr. Bunch said that the dedication offered an opportunity to assess race relations in America.

“We are not in a post-racial America, but in an America that allows us to talk about race candidly in different ways,” he said. “Having a statue of Martin Luther King, without even saying it, lets people know that this is a different mall, this is a different America.”

For those who knew Dr. King, the dedication also offered an opportunity to remember the emotion and the intensity of the civil rights movement.

“The March on Washington was the point where the whole country seemed to come together,” said Sterling Tucker, a civil rights leader who worked with Dr. King. “It felt like, here we are, marching together as a nation in the right direction.”

Mr. Tucker, who is president of the National Theater in Washington, said he experienced the same feeling when Mr. Obama was elected in 2008. That this country elected an African-American, he said, was possible only because of the work that had been done by Dr. King’s generation, a point that Mr. Obama himself has often made.

“People think times are better because times have changed,” Mr. Tucker said. “No. They are better because people worked hard to make them better.”

Congress authorized the memorial in 1996, and Alpha Phi Alpha, an African-American fraternity, set up a foundation to establish it. A Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, was selected to create the 30-foot sculpture, and the Roma Design Group, a company in San Francisco, designed the layout, which includes a wall with Dr. King’s quotations and nearly 200 cherry trees. The cost was $120 million, and organizers said they were still trying to raise the last $3 million.

Mr. Tucker recalled the euphoria of the March on Washington a little wistfully. His said his generation of civil rights leaders was aging, and he sometimes had the sense that young blacks feel that the older generation dwells too much on that past.

Young black political leaders — Mr. Obama; Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark; and Adrian M. Fenty, the former mayor of Washington — “are cut from a different cloth,” Mr. Tucker said, moving beyond the racial politics of the past into new types of leadership.

But for all the gains, he said, there is still work to be done.

“Now there’s just more sophistication in trying to perpetuate the same old ways,” he said.

The memorial, Mr. Bunch said, will help.

“For so long we either tried to ignore race, tamp it down or try to say that it’s over, that we’ve solved all the problems,” he said. “His struggle helped us realize there’s still a great deal of ambiguity about race. His monument will ensure we don’t forget it.”

"I have a dream"

Read the text; you can listen to MartinLuther King's speech at the same time.

“I Have a Dream,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Address delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause]

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. (Audience: My Lord) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later (My Lord)[applause], the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Yeah), they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to the “Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."[sustained applause]

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (My Lord)[laughter](Sure enough) We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check (Yes), a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom (Yes) and the security of justice. [applause]

We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. [applause] Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy. (My Lord) Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time [applause] to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time [applause] to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. [applause] There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold, which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (My Lord) [applause] We must forever conduct our struggle on the highest plain of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative process to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community, must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny [applause] is tied up with our destiny. [applause] And they have come to realize their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make a pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who ask in the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the very victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied [applause] as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. [applause]

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only." [applause]

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. (Yes)[applause] No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” [applause]

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. (My Lord) Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution (Yes) and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi (Yes), go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. (Yes) Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends [applause], so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. (Yes) It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day (Yes) this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” (Yes) [applause] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice (Well), sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream (Well)[applause] that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (My Lord) I have a dream today. [applause]

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” (Yes), one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. [applause]

I have a dream that one day “every valley shall be exalted (Yes), every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight (Yes) and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” (Yes)

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. (Yes) With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. (Yes) With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. (Talk about it) With this faith (My Lord) we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, (Yes) to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. [applause] This will be the day [applause continues], this will be the day when all of God's children (Yes) will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country, 'tis of thee (Yes), sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my father's died, land of the pilgrim's pride (Yes),

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring (Yes) from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. (Yes, That’s right)

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. (Well)

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. (Yes)

But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. (Yes) Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. (Yes)

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. (Yes)

From every mountainside, let freedom ring. [applause]

And when this happens [applause continues], when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city (Yes), we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual:

Free at last! (Yes) Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last. (applause)