"He Was My Brother" lyrics - PAUL SIMON
PAUL SIMON
"He Was My Brother"
He was my brother
Five years older than I
He was my brother
Twenty-three Years old the day he died
Freedom writer
They cursed my brother to his face
Go home outsider
This town's gonna be your buryin' place
He was singin' on his knees
An angry mob trailed along
They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong
He was my brother
Tears can't bnng him back to me
He was my brother
And he died so his brothers could be free
He died so his brothers could be free
The Paul Simon Songbook (1965)
- I Am A Rock
- Leaves That Are Green
- A Church Is Burning
- April Come She Will
- The Sound Of Silence
- A Most Peculiar Man
- He Was My Brother
- Kathy's Song
- The Side Of A Hill
- A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Lyndon Johnson'd Into Submission)
- Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
- Patterns
- I Am A Rock (Alternate Version)
- A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)