Tillmann - Diffcult Days (Intro by Martin Luther King III)

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to write the music & record this song. The words to this song were taken from Martin Luther King Jr's last speech. Martin Luther III speech from 2011 is also included.
Schmoyoho's awesome auto tuned version speeches inspired me to recorded this song.

LYRICS:

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness.
Let us stand with a greater determination.
Let us move on in these powerful days,
these days of challenge
to make America what it ought to be.

CHORUS:

We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it really doesn't matter with me now,
because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the Promised Land.

I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight,
that we, as a people,
will get to the promised land!
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen
the glory
of the coming of the Lord!!

-END CHORUS-

in 1960,
students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters.
And I knew that as they were sitting in they were really standing up for the best in the American dream,
and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy
which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers
in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

CHORUS:

We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it really doesn't matter with me now,
because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the Promised Land.

I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight,
that we, as a people,
will get to the promised land!
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

1962,
when Negroes in Albany, Georgia,
decided to straighten their backs up.
And whenever men and women straighten their backs up,
they are going somewhere,
because a man can't ride
can't ride, your back unless it is bent.

1963,
black people of Birmingham, Alabama,
aroused the conscience of this nation,
brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.
Later that year in August,
try to tell America
about a dream that I had had.

We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it really doesn't matter with me now,
because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the Promised Land.

I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight,
that we, as a people,
will get to the promised land!
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
fearing any man!

We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it really doesn't matter with me now,
because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the Promised Land.

I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight,
that we as a people,
will get to the promised land!
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

FOOTAGE:

Martin Luther King III Speech at the Capitol Building (March 2011)
Collection: Community Video
Producer: Atlanta Indymedia
http://www.archive.org/details/MlkLaborMarch2011
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Integration Report I (1960)
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Andover Productions
http://www.archive.org/details/Integrat1960

Peace March - Thousands Oppose Vietnam War - (April 4th 1967)
Collection: Universal Newsreels
Production Company: Universal Studios
http://www.archive.org/details/1967-04-18_Peace_March

Martin Luther King Jr Clip Reel (1986)
Collection: FedFlix
Producer: National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.54547

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

Downloadable Link: https://archive.org/details/tillmann-diffcult-days-intro-by-martin-luther-king-iii