What the World Needs Now Is Love / Abraham, Martin and John

What is segregation?

I don't know what seggeration is

Ah, what is bigotry?

I don't know what biggery is

What does er, hatred mean?

I don't know what that is

Er, what is er, prejudice?

Hmm, I think it's when somebody's sick

Rise and shine, boys!

One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four!

One

Get your head up

Two

Lower your shoulders down

Three

Get your gears out

Four

Let your gears down

One, two, three, four

One, two, three, four

One, two, three, four

I don't know what I believe

(I don't know what I believe)

I'll be on my Christmas leave

(I'll be on my Christmas leave)

Sound off

One, two

Sound off

Three, four

South off

One, two, three, four

One, two, three, four

Anybody here, seen my old friend John

Can you tell me where he's gone?

Were at the Trademark, the motorcade is coming by here

I can see many many motorcycles coming by now, police motorcycles

Just heard a call on the radio for all units along Industrial, to pick up the Motorcade

Somethings happened here, we understand there has been a shooting

The Presidential car coming up now, we know it's the presidential car

We can see Mrs. Kennedy's pink suit

There's a Secret Service man spread eagle over the top of the car

We understand governor and Mrs. Connolly are in the car with President and Mrs. Kennedy

We can't see who has been hit if anybody's been hit, but apparently something is wrong here

Something is terribly wrong

I'm in behind the motorcade now, and as you probably notice they're going to Parkland Hospital

We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin

Dallas Texas, the flash, apparently official

President John F. Kennedy died, at 1 p.m., central standard time

Anybody here, seen my old friend Martin

Can you tell me where he's gone?

He's freed a lot of people

But it seems the good they die young

Difficult days ahead. But it doesn't really matter with me now

Because I've been to the Mountain top

I don't mind. Like anybody I would like to live

No one can be certain who next will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed

Anybody here seen my old Bobby

Can you tell me where he's gone?

Mayor Yorty has just send me a message that we've been here too long already

So uh, my thanks to all of you and now it's onto Chicago and lets win this

Thank you

Senator Kennedy has been, Senator Kennedy has been shot. Is that possible?

Oh my God Senator Kennedy has been shot

Johnson has a hold of the man who apparently has fired the shot

Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun, stay away from the gun

His hand is frozen. Take a hold of his thumb and break it if you have to

Get his thumb alright. That's it ripper, get the gun ripper

Hold him, hold him. We don't want another Oswald

Like it or not we live in times of danger and uncertainty

That is the way he lived, that is what he leaves us

My brother need not be idolized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life

Be rememberd simply as a good and decent man

Saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it

He saw war, he tried to stop

Those of us who loved him, and who take him to his rest today

Pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others

Will someday come to pass for all the world

As he said many times, in many parts of this nation

Those he touched and who saw to touch him

Some men see things as they are and say why

I dream things that never were and say why not

What the world needs now

Is love sweet love

No, not just for some

But for everyone

What is segregation?

I don't know what seggeration is

Ah, what is bigotry?

I don't know what biggery is

What does er, hatred mean?

I don't know what that is

Er, What is er, prejudice?

Hmm, I think it's when somebody's sick