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​HOPE, STRUGGLE AND CHANGE
(from the album "You're Getting Sleepy")
words and music
copyright © 2009 by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
Hope and Change is what you voted for
But looking at you now, I know that you’re

Wishing that your vote did something more to move it forward


Hoping that the nation would be freed

From the hands of ignorance and greed

But you know the slogan always needed just one more word


    Hope, Struggle and Change

    Hope, Struggle and Change

    There’s trouble and danger on the road to Justice


    Gonna keep on hopin’

    Gonna keep my eyes open

    And the change will come,

    The change will come, but it won’t be easy


You know that civil rights didn’t fall to us

The moment Rosa Parks stepped on that bus

So many fought and died for racial justice before and after


And suddenly a ray of hope appears

But only after years and years and years

And only ‘cause of blood and sweat and tears and yes, even laughter


    (chorus)


Elizabeth Cady Stanton never saw

A woman’s right to vote become the law

But women everywhere now know the awesome load she carried


And Stonewall didn’t settle any fight

There’s been a lot of stonewalling since that night

But the Supreme Court just recognized the right of people to be married


    (chorus)


We gotta hope and cry, work until we die

We gotta plan and fail, spend the night in jail

We gotta really get pissed, resist and raise a fist

Gotta try to revolutionize


We gotta bleed and need, suffer guaranteed

We gotta sweat no doubt, get the vote out

We gotta howl, yell, raise a lot of hell

Gotta educate and organize

And keep our eyes on the prize


So asking any president to make

Fundamental change, that’s our mistake

We gotta be a giant just awakening from its slumber


We know the moral arc of the universe

Is bending ever better, never worse

It’s almost like the human race rehearsing for its big number


​    (chorus)


This version of "Hope, Struggle and Change is on the album YOU'RE GETTING SLEEPY is available as a CD, as a digital download and as part of the Complete Collection.
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