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no_hypocrisy

(51,949 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2025, 08:03 PM Wednesday

Die Gedanken Sind Frei (My Thoughts Are Free)

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Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts freely flower
Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts give me power
No scholar can map them
No hunter can trap them
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind frei

I think as I please
And this gives me pleasure
My conscience decrees
This right I must treasure
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator
No man can deny
Die Gedanken sind frei

And if tyrants take me
And throw me in prison
My thoughts will burst forth
Like blossoms in season
Foundations will crumble
And structures will tumble
And free men shall cry
Die Gedanken sind frei

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Die Gedanken Sind Frei (My Thoughts Are Free) (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Wednesday OP

Great song. Paladin Wednesday #1

Paladin

(30,811 posts)

1. Great song.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 08:26 PM

Wednesday

I first heard it done by The Limeliters folk music group back in the early 1960's; I was just a kid.

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