About 'FREEDOM' With RICHIE HAVENS

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Today, I found 'Freedom' by RICHIE HAVENS and HERE. This song drove Havens into the limelight...so to speak, when he did it at WOODSTOCK in 1969. I read that several performers were late at Woodstock...he was asked to s-t-r-e-a-c-h his performance...and the rest is history. It first began, when he sang that ol' spiritual 'Motherless Child', but in his own way and style and being told to 'streach' it added that in too...making it 'his' very own unique tune. I'll post it below, and you'll see what I mean. O.K? Anyway...that song's name was changed and tune  known as 'Freedom', [thanks Casey Oliver] after that....Cool.
To me 'Freedom' and 'Peace' mean the very same thing...and, I bet, everyone has their very own defination of 'Freedom'. Sooo, that song will mean something different and special to each one of us, let's us be ourselves without fear....isn't that wonderful...we're each right. 'Peace', Jan
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This is what the video page says: " Published on Apr 23, 2013

Woodstock 1969, Richie Havens was the festivals first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours (in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location), and he was called back for several encores. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual "Motherless Child" that became "Freedom".
Video of Richie Havens at Glastonbury Festival in England, 2002"

Related video;imks below.
1.] MOTHERLESS CHILD, by Eric Clapton, from Warner Bros Records