Make Those Waters Part

I have been listening all week long to a song called "Make Those Waters Part." The song is about freedom. I think it is a wonderful Passover song!

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Lyrics to “Make Those Waters Part” by Doug Mishkin

Let us retell the story of our struggle for the promised land
Let us remember how freedom is won so our children will understand

Once we were slaves in Egypt, our people and our land were apart
But when Moses stood before that troubled sea, he could
Make those waters part

Once we were slaves in America, we were given white men’s names
They scattered our families, they shattered our lives, while they kept us bound in chains

Then we marched strong in Selma, we looked the racists right in the heart
And when Martin stood before that troubled sea, he could
Make those waters part

Somewhere tonight lives a free man
Somewhere else freedom’s just a song of the heart
We must find the river flowing between them
And we must make those waters part

Now we are slaves in our own time
The many at the hands of the few
And we who’ve crossed the sea of slavery before
Must remember what we must do

In the name of the falsely imprisoned
In the name of all the homeless at heart
In the name of all the history that binds us
We must make those waters part

Somewhere tonight lives a free man
Somewhere else freedom’s just a song of the heart
We must find the river flowing between them
And we must make those waters part

Troubled seas rising around us
Sometimes the promised land seems hidden from view
So we retell these stories, that’s how we start
To make those waters part