Anyone else currently infected by the Dion brainworm?

[eridani]

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 they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

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 they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.

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 they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

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.

[Ken Burch]

1. That song was written by a man named Dick Holler, who is still alive

Dion sang the best-known version of it, but here's info on the actual writer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Holler

[lamp_shade]

2. Moms Mabley's version is nearly as good. Such pain in her voice. Here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYkxFygEBk

[eridani]

3. That I didn't know about

Way ahead of Dion--thx.

[trayfoot]

4. I had never heard her version - very touching!

Thanks for sharing that.

[rurallib]

5. I do not know why, but I have always hated that song

[keith the dem]

6. This song shuffled up on my i-pod just yesterday

I didn't even know it was on there. As usual, it made me cry.

They needed bullets to silence those progressive heros....They then found that, with the help of a compliant media, progressives could be more effectively silenced with rumors, lies and personal attacks. The politics of personal destruction. This was the way they assassinated Teddy.