Richie Havens - Freedom Lyrics

Im moving into my own Home today. And I'm so happy. I was taking a lyft yesterday and the African brother was singing this to me after i told him that im 😷 and i get treatment alot and im moving into my new place and hec says. Brother everything balance. And you will make. Im thankful for him and him putting me on to this song. God bless him Freedom Freedom

So intense and beautiful

Freedom over the World, thank you, thank you !!!

Saw Richie live in Cork City (Ireland) it was an absolute honor, R.I.P sir.

Magnificent! When music was MUSIC and we had an anthem to believe in!

2020 <3 !!!! :D !!!!! FREEDOM for all the world

I miss my Grandsons but not the abuse that came along with it.

One of The if not The Realest most soulful piece of music ever played. I MEAN EVER.

Almost 51 summers gone and this song has never stopped lifting up the spirits of the world.
A gift to mankind.

The dude @ 0:49 looks like Big Boi from Outkast

The best freestyle of all times.

Denzel Washington on drums at 49 seconds

https://youtu.be/HE17huAYb6U

Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock rehearsals :
https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/jimi-hendrix-gypsy-sun-rainbows-shokan-stu-flac-204768.html
The Band @ Woodstock :
https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/band-1969-08-17-bethel-ny-sbd-flac-124912.html#post953491
Creedence Clearwater Revival @ Woodstock :
https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/creedence-clearwater-revival-1969-08-16-bethel-ny-sbd-flac-129385.html
The Who @ Woodstock :
https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/who-1969-08-17-bethel-ny-sbd-flac-118366.html
Jimi Hendrix - The Road To Woodstock .. documentary 59 minutes :
https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f146/%5Bdvdfull%5D-jimi-hendrix-road-woodstock-pro-shot-677005.html

I was there - 17 years old. He's a great performer. Saw him many times in concert. Met him once. He has such a deep soul.

Merci, Mec. Tu nous l'as fait et puis elle dure. La dernière fois que j'ai vraiment entendu le mot LIBERTE, en dehors de la "liberté de consommer/d'entreprendre" (ou "d'expression" pour justifier le racisme), ... c'était il y a bien longtemps. Mais grâce à toi et à d'autres, elle est enracinée, chevillée aux corps et aux âmes...

Well hopefully YouTube doesn't take down your video.. awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

I love love love this

At Woodstock something was hatching that few people understood at the time but it was deeply felt. Unknown last minute acts heralded a new world and Richie Havens was one of them. It was largely improvised. The other big surprise was Santana, also a last minute entry to fill an after lunch slot. Something was happening and it started to grow on people. Richie Havens with Freedom, Jimmy Hendrix with his immortal anthem through which we heard the helicopters flying, Santana making this happy fresh energizing sound for a whole generation, it was all so incredible, it took years to come to terms with it, if you could at all.

Crowd offbeat as usual.

Guess who makes up most of the crowd.

Live music separates the talented from the engineered

Not sure if he is tripping but he definitely smoked a bunch of weed before going out too. His eyes are so fucking red but he’s probably on both

The Dayc the music died

you can feel the pain in his voice.. I cried  im 61 now

WOOSTOOK is the festival number one✌👍🎵🎸♥️🙂

There is a drummer whose celebrating freedom, equality and respect for the environment playing drums around of the world, his name is Matteo Fraboni and his Quintet

Always in my heart, deeply

2020 peace love freedom music ✌️✌️♥️♥️🌸🌸👏👏

Beautiful.

Give this guy a hug for frack sake haha

Listening to this song covers me in goose bumps! Those were the days!

Honest, Brilliant, Spectacular.

Happy Birthday Richie ...RIP! 1 21

Happy Birthday in heaven, Richie.... you will not be forgotten.

Thank you Sebastian Walter for sharing this Awesomeness. So more peeps can experience this we have further shared it here www.tinyurl.com/Fromhere2eternity777 at www.EarthPartyNow.com All welcome 2 the jubilee. Here 2 www.paulfb.com Plz check our fundraiser there to save starving children in Africa. TY.

One of Woodstock's standouts. Brilliant.

richie made this song up just to keep playing.he was what I like to call in the zone.

Ja,
immer noch höre ich dieses Lied gerne.


hätte ich als Jugendlicher gewusst, dass es etwas anderes gibt, vielleicht wäre ich heute nicht wieder da, wo ich herkomme.


Ganz unten!

This was the performance that made me want to be a musician no joke. My all time fav acoustic performance. Thank u Richie for getting me into music God bless u

Estamos al ariel por Facebook y messenger

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

May Peace Be Upon YOU, Richie!!!

Thanks Richie...You won't be forgotten

This shit brought out tears

Would it be inaccurate if I said Woodstock was the Coachella of the time?(but more impactful for its time)

Nothing compared to..the Best Part of Waking Up.. is Folgers in Your Cup.

Sentiments Numériques Revisités Live 2015 Paris

Imagine being able to make this up as you went

It's called spirit revival lives deep within your heart

A TRUE ARTIST💯

This song means more now then back then ,demoocrats trying to take all of our freedom from us all its a sad world

You dont get this song never did. Nor the movement you're the dude that acted punk rock but bought his shit at the mall we made fun of you

Stunning danke Richie

Freedom - clap your hands! What 's not to like?

RICHIE'S EGG'S

Return so often - one day one day x

I bet alot alot of people was high or on drugs

Pablo Escobar plus colombian and those mexican cartels were around back then to blame them like some people do now.Who came up with all that drug???

The greatest live performance at Woodstock and maybe of the century. Channeling the gods.

No way Jose!!!There have been many great music performances around the world than this one.Even greater ones because they have been more compromising than this song.You need to listen more music.

@jesus perez -- I been listening to 'serious' music for 45 years. This is an epic performance Jose!

real music...... ...... !!!

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🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵Sometimes I feel like im almost gone🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

I saw this live when I was 17.I can even be spotted in the crowd clapping my hands.I actually stayed for the whole festival . I got there on Thursday, with tickets forall 3 days, I didn't leave until Monday. It was a  life altering event.

Wow
I am
Speechless

I needed this
The voice,the guitar,the sound,the empowerement,the way he sweat his life so much it took every ounce of him to get that song out of his chest...man...
This feeling you get when you witness another human being get possessed like that ,methaphorically speaking.
The way he leave the scene ,slowly at the end of the last part,as to dissapear with the song itself,knowing the job is done
Wow
(maybe i was not speechless)
But wow

Wasn’t born until 72 so missed Woodstock but had the privilege of seeing Richie Havens at the psychedelic celebration in 92 at poplar creek outside Chicago.

Fweedum toe 👍🏼

Amen! I felt that!

tell your patty hearst to go find univercity city mall and cresent ( neminmarkest) spokane with an emty machine gun and burn in helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

aaare you and scottland gone 2019

Of course, I wasn't there. But this rings as the most powerful moment I've seen from this.

I've been looking for home 50 odd years not found it yet

Gutted I missed this 🤙was only 1 tho.

Born in 1971 to a young single mother; so this music has been with me since the beginning.
One of my earliest memories is of a teenage baby sitter teaching me to ✌ and wish everyone love.
Even as a toddler, I KNEW it was a special era.

When music, entertainment and culture regardless of genre meant something. Based on talent, merit, skill, potential etc.

I was listening to a newer song called speedom by tech n9ne and this song came up. This song is amazing. Be inspired.

tech got inspiration from this song for speedom

This may be the greatest voice I have ever heard.

Guitar mike....I thought was a person...lol.

this guy could not grab his ass with both hands,or eat corn on the cobb.what a dud

Speedom
Sometimes i feel like I’ll never slow down!

Tech N9ne knows his music from this to the doors collabo to using dean Martin sample

Mike Saggio Tech n9ne... a total legend

This is inspiration. It fires me up when I see corruption in social media...regardless of party affiliation...

I played this song for my son. Now he's a grown man.

Thanos Saturn that’s crazy that the song made him instantly grow up into an adult man. I didn’t know it had magic powers.

@Jay Gough then maybe you need to listen to it again.

big influence on my adaptation
https://youtu.be/UBy6XGWcjGs

Very talented man

*Freedom is a myth.*
No one is free, not even the ruling families.
The only true free man is a man who lives in a wilderness all his life & has never been in society..

True freedom is within in the first place. And it has a lot to do with letting go, especially letting go of material shit and the myths that are connected to it. The less I need, the less I am in need, the more I am free.

never leaving woodstock

OH I JUST WANT TO BE FREE...FREE TO FIND MY WAY FREE TO MAKE MY MISTAKES FREE TO BE WHATEVER IT IS IM GOING TO BE

Brother, Brother....when I need.

LSD is the most significant experience a human being can have in its heart.

Peyote man

Rogelio Diaz murillo peyote and san pedro cactus are like the first template of ingestable miracles and LSD is like the last template of that miracle grid inside the windows of the time matrix.

Marihuana was probably the first template of miracle grids.... But ultimately agent smith mutated that template of original energy in the time matrix, and the dejavu behind the last mutation is a miracle called LSD.

Guitar Mike is one cool cat.

Sure is dur

I saw the movie as it was released. What difference from the inane sexless sissy songs of today. These were real singers and musicians!

What a beautiful thing Woodstock was. Peace and love. Look at young people now (at least lots of them). Now we have consumerism and pixels. And lots of hate to boot. I want to cry.

Charlie Manson @ 2:53 mark...

What huh who? Hmm

I met Ritchie 20 years after Woodstock, he was a terrible tipper. Fuck him.

Grandiosa figura. Grande músico.

The GREAT Richie Havens. A blessing.xx

Homie scratched the paint off that guitar by the end of the concert

Speedom.

This is powerful. Thank you.

As my friend and I were moving down into the crowd Mr. Havens was just walking across the stage to the microphone. We found an empty space We dumped our sleeping bags on the ground..As a we flopped down on them Mr. Havens began to sing. I can't recall the first song, this is the last, if I remember correctly. It's 50 years ago and as I write this it could be yesterday-because it was. As I get older I hope I never forget Woodstock. It was a magical and wonderful time to be young, and to take risks.

Thats so wonderful. Ive seen a few hack attempts at woodstock documentaries; last fall a PBS station in Atlanta played one on the 50th anniversary day that was absolutely outstanding. 2 hours long, it covered the evolution, the business deals that led to it, the music and artists, the crowd, and left me more stunned and amazed than I already was at how thousands and thousands ascended into peaceful euphoria during that festival.

I'm too young for Woodstock, but I've always loved Richie and so does one of my best buds. Richie was in town about 7 years ago (maybe it was 10, I can't recall anymore, but obviously before he died) at a small venue and after the show my buddy was close enough to shake his hand and gave him his own music CD, with, no doubt, some small Havens influence in there, and Richie accepted it and graciously bowed in gratitude. My buddy said he'll never forget that moment. I thought that was pretty awesome. What a great person!!

I was born on July 13th 1969.

In the one voice you can hear all the voices of the ancestors
✊🏿

And I’m gonna hit the clutch