"Dr. King, from the Mountain-Top Your Voice Sounds / ... / Love creates, Hate negates / All good courage is God's grace / The time is always right To do what's right / ...
I hope that you enjoy this revisiting of “Dr. King Shines On Good For Everyone” and Cole Williams great, impassioned voice. Again this day for a true King coincides with the Opening of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. You an imagine how Dr. King would respond to WEF and its 100 ‘Strategic Partners.’
His voice was already calling out global and domestic predators in speeches of 1967 and 1968. Please see and hear through links below. Thank YOU!
"Dr. King Shines On Good For Everyone”
(A)
Dr. King Dr. King
Dr. King Dr. King
(B)
Dr. King would never
Let a family sleep outside
Dr. King would never
Dodge and duck and hide
Dr. King would never
Take a dollar to be unkind
Dr. King would never,
Never not speak his mind
(C)
(pick-up) Dr. King from the Mountain-top your voice sounds
Dr. King you're the Drum-Major forever strong
Dr. King you never left the righteous Road
Dr, King you fought where you were called.
(A)
Dr. King Dr. King Dr. King Dr. King
(C)
Dr. King you said all deserve a home
Dr. King you said it's not about skin-tone
Dr. King you said all Wars are for Banks
Dr. King you would lift America and the world
Dr. King from the mountain-top your voice sounds
Dr. King your Justice leads us on and on
Dr. King your soulful, smiling, angry Light
Still shines on good for everyone!
For everyone
For everyone
For everyone
Dr. King
We're marching--marching--…
There's right and wrong
And we march with you
There's work for all
And we strike for you
There's freedom through justice
And we fight for you
Love creates, Hate negates
All good courage is God's grace
The time is always right
To do what's right
And all of Light and Love
Are gifts from God
We're marching and striking and fighting for you
Till we win the Dream that you spoke high
Till we win the Life that you spoke high
Till we win those Rights for everyone
Till we win that Life for everyone
Dr. King!
All that's good comes from God
And we can serve for you
We're marching and striking and fighting for you
Your shining, soulful, angry Light
Still shines on good for everyone
Dr. King!
All of God
And it's thanks to you
Dr. King!
All of good
And it's thanks to you
Dr. King!
We all can serve
And it's thanks to you
Thank you--Thank you--Thank you!
The song was recorded n New Orleans at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio in sessions of 2015. I mastered it with David Farrell in January 2020. And now the FTC remastering of today.
MUSICIANS
Mario Abney, trumpet
Matt Clark, banjo and guitar
Gene Harding, drums
Zack Knewstub, Fender Rhodes
Rick G. Nelson, bass
Don Paul, vocal
Cole Williams, vocal
Kaliq Woods, clarinet
Tom Worrell, piano
Please see below for links to speeches of Dr. King’s
In April of 1967 Dr. King spoke to a multi-racial gathering in New York City’s Riverside Church. He denounces pitfalls and ravages of Empire. He denounced the United Statea’ and other NATO Nations’ furtherance of the Vietnam War. He said: “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
A year later, April 3, 1968, Dr. King spoke to sanitation-workers in Memphis, Tennessee about economic justice. Such justice was a human right, he said. He promised another March on Washington. This March would involve all Poor People. They together would achieve victory though he himself might fall. He'd been to the Mountain-top. He was proud to be a Drum-Major for justice and freedom. He might not be with them, but all could reach the Promised Land. The next evening Dr. King was somehow shot and killed while under the FBI had him under surveillance.
Dr. King’s courage never faltered.
He was relentless and dauntless. From 1955 to 1956 the Boycott of buses and his and hundreds' overall struggle in Montgomery, Alabama took 382 days to win. In 1958 he was stabbed in the chest while signing books in Harlem. The wound from a 7 1/2-inch blade came "just a sneeze away" from cutting through his aorta. In 1961 and '62 he was in Mississippi and in 1963 back to Alabama, Birmingham, and its Police dogs, clubs, fire-hoses, and bombings killing Black children.
In 1964 he won the Novel Peace Prize. That year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. The next year, the Voting Rights Act passed. Dr. King and colleagues from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the Congress of Racial Equality led the three Marches over the 54 miles from from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1966 Dr. King, his wife Coretta and their children moved into Chicago slum housing and he marched in Illinois and with Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick in Mississippi. Riots broke out again among Black poor in U.S. cities that Summer.
In 1967 Dr. King published the book Where Do We Go from Here? Chaos or Community and spoke out more broadly against the Western powers’ war in Vietnam and the Empire this war represented. Rioting unto rebellions broke out among Black poor in Newark, Detroit, and other U.S. cities that Summer. This year, too, Black Panthers carried guns into the California State Legislature. In December Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People announced the Poor People’s Campaign.
By March of 1968 the Poor People’s Campaign included ‘layers of American Indian, Puerto Rican, Mexican American, and poor white communities.’
Dr. King called it ‘the beginning of a new co-operation, understanding, and a determination by poor people of all colors and backgrounds to assert and win their right to a decent life and respect for their culture and dignity.’ He joined sanitation-workers’ struggle for equal rights and pay in Memphis, Tennessee. He gave his “We shall get to the Promised Land!” speech on April 3rd and was shot the next evening while under FBI surveillance.
What may we learn now from Dr. King’s example and history? Why does the struggle that he embodied matter even more now than in his lifetime? The Empire of international exploitation is far more extensive now than in 1968. Warfare is more widespread around the world now than it was in 1968. Young Black people in the United States are even likelier now to be imprisoned than in 1968. The working poor are much increased in this nation over the past 50 years. We’re far less informed by Networks’ media now than even we were 50 years ago.
A voice and vision and example such as Dr. King’s is thus even more to be raised and praised!
Thank all for the miracle of the movement that Dr. King helped to bring into the world!
Such movement will prove to be even more alive in this year 2024, this Year of Rebellions and Satisfactions with one another!