Streisand, Barbra - That's A Fine Kind O' Freedom Lyrics

Algertdiner: do you knwo if Harold Arlen wrote this song especially for the Selma Voting Rights Campaign?

You should go clean your gun and have an 'accident', a mortally FATAL 'accident'.

Esse É Um Tipo Excelente de Liberdade
"Um pássaro no céu
Veja o que ele tem
Liberdade para voar
E liberdade para não voar
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"Olhe para ele
Voando alto
Olhe para o corvo
Ele é tão livre quanto o pombo
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"É dele o céu azul
Assentado sobre o seu raio de sol
Poderia haver um raio
Lá em cima, para mim"

"Um pássaro no céu
Um homem na árvore
Ele não precisa voar
Mas precisa ser livre
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"Um pássaro no céu
Veja o que ele tem
Liberdade para voar
E liberdade para não voar
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"Ele voa para onde gosta
Ele gosta de onde voa
Não precisa ir
Até os confins do céu
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"Acorde, ave abatida
E nos ajude a vencer
A liberdade dormiu
Por tempo demais"

"Um pássaro no céu
Um homem na árvore
Ele não precisa voar
Mas precisa ser livre
Tem que encontrar aquilo
Que procura
Liberdade e equilíbrio
De-dum
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

"Hey, pássaro
Você pode mostrar o caminho, pássaro
Você pode mostrar a ele hoje, pássaro
Oh, sim
Esse é um tipo excelente de liberdade"

I love it at 2:22. Barbra and Donna!

cute...sheeeple ....that is cute but oh so useless.....it simplifies and diminutitizes a whole group of people's true emotions.....by calling individuals by this term you are minimizing their freedom of choice simply because you are not in agreement and probably represent an alternate view which is not shared by the majority you refer to as "sheeple"

@johnw456 As a US ARMY vet I say to you do not pity their deaths.....they would not want that ...rather you should praise their cause and remember them respectfully...live your life better so that their death is not in vain. Be brave and courageous....as they were.. and live a good life. Uplift them and do not waste your energy with sad pity.

@MadTarnsman You are a disgusting piece of shit....oh and btw I am a white blue eyed man who is a US ARMY VET you scum sucking pig.

Sad to read about the passing of Lena Horne this week, Very beautiful and talented
singer. Barbra Streisand was always shy when she was near Lena Horne, who was
also from Brooklyn. Barbra never recorded Lena Horne's signature song STORMY
WEATHER, even though she recorded lots of Harold Arlen's songs. Barbra should sing it now as a tribute to Lena.

Very sad to hear of the passing of singer Lena Horne this week.
Extremely beautiful and talented she was an overnight sensation.
Barbra was always shy when she was near Lena. Curious that Barbra
recorded lots of Harold Arlen's songs, but never recorded Lena Horne's
signature song STORMY WEATHER. Would be great if Barbra sings that
now as a tribute in memory of Lena Horne..

very informative!

What rock have you been under?

Who should we blame, the little man who lives under your bed?? Bush/Cheney deregulated the banks, allowed sub prime mortgages to flourish, sent us to war to fight the terrorist in a country that they were not in and they knew it. They didnt destroy New Orleans but they let it get worst and are responsible for almost 1000 people dead there. Bush/Cheney destroyed this country and now the Republicans want to blame Obama?? Are you kidding me??

Thank You
I enjoyed this alot : )

It's his predecessor and that administration who is responsible for de-regulating the banks, going to war in Iraq etc. More troops are needed in afghanistan where the taliban is still florishing along with it's neighbours in pakistan. Can't blame him or the democrats who are only in the door. Obama is doing what he can with the mess the circus-clown Bush left behind.

He may be no Martin Luther King but he's no idiot

Johnw456. you're the only idiot

vERY SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a U.S. Army veteran not a war monger. Businessmen and politicians make war, soldiers do the fighting of them and real soldiers do not want wars. War is only necessary when all laws and rules have been unsuccessful and all other options have failed. You may be married to an American however you have not been reflective of your own views and responses, if you were you would clearly see your bias against us. I support our soldiers both U.S. and UK. And I support and celebrate our President.

Your anti-reality-American prosocialist--proislamicterrorist--pro weakminded and cowardly.Put on a burka get on a way-back machine go back in time to "thesummer of love" and peddle your immature unrealistic sophmoric banter to people who are not living in the real world. Without soldiers --peace loving people who have the luxery of having their delicate sensativities offended by war are not thinking in a forward way. Sometimes you have to do the hard stuff to get the good stuff.

It's nice to know that we can find some common ground in our love of history. If the truth be told I am a bit of an anglophile. From Shakespear to Merchant-Ivory films-- the Beatles to "little Britian" it's all quite nice. Glenda Jackson, Gemma Jones, Emma Thompson, John Gelgud and Alec Guiness etc.. The U.S. and UK have and will always be linked even with it's minor diagreements but as individuals I feel we should support the victories won even at the cost of human defeats.

WHAT ABOUT TODAY Barbra Streisand
1969

gooday with one d....Oh wait, he's an Aussie.. Worry about your own country and try not to worry yourself over an election you couldn't possibly understand.

"the stones" and spells color with a u-he's a brit.whose still paying for a monarchy-my grandfather helped save your asses from Hitler- my greatgrandfather seven back fought in the revolutionary war. Don't lecture about bombs and freedom you don't have a leg to stand on. In the 1920's you guys had colonial control of Iraq and didn't do much better. Go enlist or put on a burka or just plain read a history book. Spare us your useless armchair rhetoric about an election that isn't even yours. Brit.

Those families had a whole decade to change a horrible dictatorship within there own country and they chose not to. It is a harsh reality, as a U.S. Army veteran who served in gulf war era, I can assure you that evey volunteer soldier of ours has the courage necessary to face this. So if you call the collective common sense a sheep mentality than you would have to also agree that you are on the fringes. Maybe you should either go enlist or wear a burka. You arm chair patriot.

I could listen to this a million times

Your impossible "one week" expectation is applicable to "most jobs". It takes longer for troop movements, political negotion scheduals are fluid and financial mechanisms have a time clock of there own. The Great Depression began in 1929 and ended in the 30s and 40s depending on the country. Problems we will always have, but take time to enjoy a celebration of human triumph over bigotry and while your at it listen to the dulcet tones of one Miss Barbra Streisand. This is a fine kinda freedom.

I think the whole point is that after 120 years post- civil war and the emancipation of the slaves, there can be celebration as well as a recognition of achieving the first black president. It is fine. Never perfect, but fine.

Don't be a knucklehead he hasn't even had 60 days yet...at least he isn't golfing on his ranch like Dubya was during the first 100 days of his presidency.

I cry thinking about this song, that i know i'll be free too, with such hope in my heart, i will not give up on that day!

Very powerful!

WOW, something powerful!

This is a great video...such a nice dedication...and great vocals from our Barbra

1:20-1:27 Barbra Streisand and Louis Armstrong
April 13, 1965 GRAMMY AWARDS YEAR 1964
Best vocal performance male Louis Armstrong Hello Dolly!
Best vocal performance, female Barbra StreisandPeople

at 1:03 and 1:48 is the same person, LESLIE
UGGAMS, a talented singer and actress. She
became famous in the MITCH MILLER SHOW in the
early 1960s as a singer, and impressed everyone as an actress in the series ROOTS
( based on Alex Haney book) in the 1970s.

Yes. This song was included in the 1969 LP
WHAT ABOUT TODAY?.

0:33-0:37 JESSE OWENS 1936 Berlin Olympics
"Hitlers ideas of racial superiority were about to be repudiated by the performance of the African American athlete, Jesse Owens. Hitler wanted to prove on the athletic field, the superiority of his Aryan Race.
Jesse Owens shocked Hitler when he won his 4th olympic gold medal. Jesse Owens, the grandson of a slave would go down in history not only for his incredible athletic achievement, but for his repudiation of Hitlers racial ideas."

1:11-1:18 Martin Luther King I HAVE A DREAM
""Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, 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 Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

0:04-0:22 JOSEPHINE BAKER
"She refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States.
In 1951, Baker made charges of racism against The Stork Club in New York, where she had been refused service.
Baker also worked with the NAACP. In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally.".

1:00-1:05 LESLIE UGGAMS
". As a regular cast member on the popular music program Sing Along with Mitch in the early 1960s, Uggams was then the only African American performer on network television, and joined a small number of African American performers who had ever appeared on television. Her good looks, infectious smile, and solid vocal talent won the hearts of television viewers. In 1967, Sammy Davis, Jr. said of Uggams, "She's very special. The first great step has happened with her.."

1:29-1:36 Barbra Streisand in Kenya, Africa,
circa 1972. "Streisand remembered Kenya as quite beautiful ... I remember it being so hot. We had no air conditioner or anything, so I had a little, dinky trailer. But I loved the people, the Samburu people, and I made very good friends with a woman of the tribe. We didnt speak the same language, obviously, but she understood what I was trying to say to her. She showed me how to dress. Everything was held together with safety pins .."

0:38-0:42, 1:20-1:27, 1:50-2:02
LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
" His first cornet was bought with money loaned to him by the Karnofskys, a Russian-Jewish immigrant family who had a junk hauling business and gave him odd jobs. To express gratitude towards the Karnofskys, who took him in as almost a family member and fed and nurtured him Armstrong wore a Star of David pendant for the rest of his life.".

Thank you very much Trudi for your comments.
Jag Sameach. I hope that Barbra Streisand
will be invited to sing at the inauguration
of President Obama.

0:44-0:55 Rosa Parks
"On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Rosa Parks' civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott."

0:57-0:59 Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
""I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt," Ella later said. "It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the '50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night... The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night."

2:09-2:11 Janis Joplin and Bessie Smith.
"A Stone for Bessie Smith
_"In August of 1970, just two months before her own death, Janis Joplin visited the grave of her greatest influence, Bessie Smith, at Mount Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA (Smith died in 1937). Janis was shocked to discover that Smith's grave had no proper headstone, so she bought one for her. In October, Janis died while in her prime, leaving behind a legacy of only a handful of recordings."_

Oh, the memories. I was brought up in Montgomery and my mother collaborated with the boycott by driving our maid back and forth across town. A small thing but rare for its time.

Now is such an exciting time and your suggestion is a good one. I hope we don't expect too much of the new President.

well, you know thar old saying¨"TIME FLIES",
except when you´re anxiously waiting for
something to happen...