Ride The Bus Lyrics

DC to New Orleans, 13 riders on the bus

We're gonna beak down the walls that divide our nation

Starting with the Greyhound and Trailways stations

Freedom, Ride the Bus

Atlanta, down in Dixie land, we met up with MLK

He said we'll never make it out of Alabama alive

But we kept on riding anyway

Freedom, Ride the Bus

Just a couple miles out of Anniston, 50 carloads of angry men

Firebombed the bus, tried to burn us alive

Beat us 'till the troopers arrived

Ride the bus, Ride the Bus

Birmingham and the KKK, but not a single cop in sight

Conner said, "you got a quarter hour boys

With your baseball bats and iron pipes"

Freedom, Ride the Bus

In Abernathy's church in Montgomery

A thousand people packed inside

Lifting up the Freedom Riders, Lord, let them ride, let them ride, let them ride

Freedom, Ride the Bus

The church was soon surrounded

An angry mob was at the door

Lord have mercy, we will overcome

We won't back down no more

Ride the Bus, Ride the Bus

Equal rights to ride are all we seek

If the blows come raining down we'll turn the other cheek

We will offer up our lives, we're prepared to die

But come the morning, come the morning, come the morning

We Ride the Bus, Ride the Bus

Jackson, Mississippi, Lord, they threw the riders all in jail

We kept on singing our freedom songs We refused to pay the bail

Freedom, Ride the Bus

It was the summer of 1961

We filled up all the jails under the Mississippi sun

But they kept on coming, the Freedom Rides are running

Come on, come on, come on

Ride the Bus, Ride the Bus

Freedom, Ride the Bus