Listen to I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (feat. Bela Fleck) by The Blind Boys of Alabama & Béla Fleck

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (feat. Bela Fleck)

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The Blind Boys of Alabama - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (feat. Bela Fleck) (2021)

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ALBUMI Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (feat. Bela Fleck) - SingleThe Blind Boys of Alabama & Béla Fleck

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama

Performer

Béla Fleck

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Ken Navarro

Songwriter

Roberto Vally

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jimmy Nutt

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free

I wish I could break all the chains holding me

I wish I could say all the things I wanna say

Say 'em loud, say 'em clear

For the whole wide world to hear

[Verse 2]

I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart

Remove all the bars that keeps us apart

I wish you could know what it means to be me

Then you'd see and agree

That every man should be free

[Chorus]

I wish I could give all I'm longing to give

I wish I could live like I'm longing to live

I wish I could do all the things that I can do

Though I'm way overdue, I'll be starting anew

[Instrumental]

Haha

Come on, son

Play that thing, play that thing (Come on, now, yeah)

You soundin' good, boy

Oh yeah

Woo, that's it there

He pickin' that thing (Oh, he pickin' it now)

He pickin', aw, he pickin' now (Play that, play that, play that)

Aw, yeah

Oh yeah (Yes sir, aw yeah), aw yeah, yes sir

[Outro]

Well, I wish I could be like a bird in the sky

How sweet it would be if I found I could fly

I would soar to the sun and look down at the sea

And I'd sing 'cause I'd know

We'd sing 'cause we know (I'd sing because I know)

We'd sing 'cause we know (I would like to know)

We'd sing 'cause we know (How it feels, I would like to know)

We'd sing 'cause we know (How it feels)

We'd sing 'cause we know (I would like to break the chains)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Holding me, I would like to break)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Break the chains that's holding me)

We'd sing 'cause we know

We'd sing 'cause we know (Somebody tell me)

We'd sing 'cause we know (How it feels)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Huh)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Go 'head)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Lord, I wish I knew how)

We'd sing 'cause we know (How it feels)

We'd sing 'cause we know (I wanna know how it feels)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Can somebody tell me how it feels?)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Oh, I wanna know how it feels to be free)

We'd sing 'cause we know (I wanna know how it feels to be free)

We'd sing 'cause we know (I wanna, wanna be free, hey-hey)

We'd sing 'cause we know (Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)

And we'd sing 'cause we know (Yeah, yeah)

How it feels to be free

Written by: Ken Navarro, Roberto Vally

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