Song of the Day: Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynard


I’m not even a hockey fan and I’m cheering right now!  3 Days ago, the U.S. women’s hockey team defeated Canada and won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.  Today, the men’s hockey team did the same thing.

I have tears in my eyes and you better believe I have a song of the day.

Sing it!

(Arleigh picked this for Song of the Day back in 2015 and did a much better job than me explaining why this song is the unofficial national anthem of the United States.)

Free Bird

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on, now
‘Cause there’s too many places
I’ve got to see

But, if I stayed here with you, girl
Things just couldn’t be the same
‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now
And this bird, you’ll can not change
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows, I can’t change
Bye, bye, baby it’s been a sweet love

Yeah, yeah
Though this feeling I can’t change
But please don’t take it so badly
‘Cause the Lord knows
I’m to blame

But, if I stayed here with you girl
Things just couldn’t be the same
‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now
And this bird, you’ll can not change
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

And this bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows, I can’t change
Lord help me, I can’t change
Lord I can’t change

Won’t you fly high, free bird, yeah?

(commence awesome triple guitar solos)

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