He Was My Brother (3:19)

Simon & Garfunkel - He was my brother 1966 live

He was my brother
Five years older than I
He was my brother
Twenty-three years old the day he died

Freedom writer
They cursed my brother to his face…

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LinaGarcia wrote:
May 2009

It was actually written for Andrew Goodman, the 20 year old Freedom Summer volunteer that was killed alongside Shwerner and Chaney on June 21st, 1964. He was a classmate and friend of Paul Simon's. Beautiful song!

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kat_man_du wrote:
July 2008

Also, the incident mentioned by Big_Dip was the basis of the movie "Mississippi Burning" if memory serves correctly...

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Big_Dip wrote:
April 2008

This song was written in memory of Michael Mickey Schwerner, a fellow college student and civil rights activist, who was slain in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan along with two other people.

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