Wild and Free

Curtis Mayfield

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Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award (in 1994) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1995), and he was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i… more »


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1970
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Wild and free is the way I wanna be
Making a new day
Leading in a new way

Respect for those people
Power to the people
Setting down the old crew
Bringing in the brand new
Wild and free with peace finally

Wild and free is the way I want my life
Natures wait for me
Without pain in its stride

Fighting what is wrong
Across the world as well as home
But respect for everybody's right
Would be really out of sight

Our great obligations
Would not be bad situation
If the young what we listen to
For what they really know is true

Respect for those people
Power to the people
The old people who worry 'bout me
'Cause I am so wild and free

Wild and free is the way I wanna be
Making a new day
Leading in a new way
Respect for those people
Power to the people

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Written by: CURTIS MAYFIELD

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