Old pirates, yes, they rob I   Sold I to the merchant ships   Minutes after they took I   From the bottomless pit      But my hand was made strong   By the hand of the Almighty   We forward in this generation triumphantly      Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?   'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs, redemption songs      Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery   None but ourselves can free our minds   Have no fear of atomic energy   'Cause none of them can stop the time      How long shall they kill our prophets   While we stand aside and look?   Yes, some say it's just a part of it   We've got to fulfill the book