Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - Freeborn Man

[@dwm1943]

Beautiful, and uplifting, and sad...all at the same time.

[@fionatyler9928]

Well, I've learned a new verse today. This is the most beautiful song. Thank you Ewan for touching my imagination with this song since childhood.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

This just may be my favorite folk song. I tried to learn it; but either it's out of my voice range, or it's just a lot more complicated than it sounds. I couldn't learn it. -- It reminds me so much of my late wife, Sally Jo Davis, with whom I had a folk duo. We used to listen to it on a tape, in the car. Back in the day....

[@daystarbanduk]

I cry just thinking about this song Ewan and Peggy, lovely

[@johndavidcollins6163]

E. R. Bowles try a capo then you can play the chords but in a key that suits your voice

[@fionatyler9928]

So much easier said than done. I struggle with the lower notes, too, but to take it higher takes me out of range at the top end, and I have a good range.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

@@johndavidcollins6163that doesn't make any sense at all. If a song is out of my range, a capo is not going to fix it.

[@adrianpowell814]

A beautiful writer and singer, a true poet!

[@Frondi79]

What fantastic memories these sings bring to me, as well as melancholic feelings of loss for an old way of life!

[@edbadyt]

This was my dad's favourite song and we played it at his funeral. Thankyou for posting :-)

[@caelwyn]

The Man's a true musical genius!! Loved this song for so long, my Dad had a live Ewan McColl album and this was on it, a Gem of a song 8-)

[@mellowfellow4755]

I never considered how much the squeezebox played a part in this

[@johnjames6463]

Ewan Maccoll will live forever.

[@boxofshells]

Same album was issued with a different cover... orange if I remember. With a photo of Ewan and Peggy in the center. Are these the same recordings? They sound perhaps... different.

[@knowndwarf]

+boxofshells It's the same recording, released in the US by Rounder Records. More info here : www.discogs.com/Ewan-MacColl-With-Peggy-Seeger-Freeborn-Man/release/5033714

[@boxofshells]

+knowndwarf Ahhh. yes. Thanks. I rented the Orange cover album from the public library... it made a big impression on me. Thanks for uploading this!

[@alanwann9318]

Listen to Luke Kelly sing this

[@neocallimastix]

Im a Freeborn man of the Vacced people.. Peggy let the side down bigtime.

[@brentfromcanada224]

Huh?

[@neocallimastix]

@@brentfromcanada224 she's very pro vax lobbying on the radio about how we should only have freedom if we get the clot shot.

[@alfgilzean3362]

I'm sorry but there are much better versions than this out there.

[@clarecopeland1965]

Alf Gilzean no one else wrote it though

[@adrianpowell814]

I disagree, not because Ewan Maccoll wrote it but it's a brilliant origin of good lyrics and song!

[@tkgawa]

Such as? New to the song so please clue me in.

[@thaksjtube]

I disagree, this one sounds the most genuine. He wrote it so it makes sense that he really feels the lyrics

[@tasdrduck]

@@thaksjtube I enjoyed it, of course it is in the old style and it is nice to hear it.

[@Frondi79]

What fantastic memories these sings bring to me, as well as melancholic feelings of loss for an old way of life!

[@FurnitureFan]

Fine for him. Not so much for his daughters.