Abraham, Martin, and John
Words and Music by Richard Holler
Artist:Dion
Album: The original "Dion" album Is Out of Print
Dion DiMucci, better known only by his first name, was the lead singer of the Belmonts in the late 1950s.
In 1960 the group disbanded and Dion started a solo career. In 1962 Dion signed a contract with Columbia Records, for which he would record for the next three years. In 1968 he recorded his hit, "Abraham, Martin, and John."
Album: The original "Dion" album
Abraham Lincoln is among the nation's most prized and beloved personages.
A man of nobility and leadership, he grew up among the impoverished and uneducated.
Through perseverance he attained great knowledge of life and love for the American people.
" Liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves."... John Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr. was able to express the inner anxieties of the oppressed black nation of the 1950's-1960's and stands as one of the founders of present day society. He was driven by his belief of justice and equality for those who were given none.
Lyrics:
Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good die young,
But I just looked around and he's gone.
Has anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good die young,
But I just looked around and he's gone.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good die young,
But I just looked around and he's gone.
Didn't you love the things they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free.
Someday soon,
it's gonna be
One day.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' Up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John
