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Free Woman

from Airing from Kolyma by Lilou & John

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"Free Woman" is a song about the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet Union in 1956, as well as an attempt to describe part of the story behind modern central European Conservatism in a few verses. The chorus ”I was a born a free woman” is intended to make the listener feel the conviction of the Cold war dissidents all over central Europe and how many often perceive history as a struggle for freedom from Imperial rule, such as Habsburg, Soviet and the EU. The ”camp fire” feel of the guitar is intended to symbolize the surge of popular Conservative sentiment in Hungary after enduring poverty, imprisonment, deportation and even the execution of family members before 1989. Lilou was inspired by ”Born in the USA” when she created the melody and wanted women to start thinking ”freedom is my birthright and nobody has the right to take that away from me, no matter what political color they have.”

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We came from out of nothing they said when we were young
From the streets of Székesfehérvár off to Magadan
We wished we had the wings to fly like the Turul bird
And sing to all the Bolsheviks what they had never heard

Born a free woman
I was born a free woman

I was born an orphan and Kolyma was my home
That is what they told me and I walked off on my own
And when I sank down on my knees to cut my wrists and die
Reflected in the river I could see your colors fly

Born a free woman
I was born a free woman

For thirty years they killed us in the concentration camps
Like the ghosts of children all too young to understand
But one day they called us in and said that we were free
For the voice of liberty had spread from Hungary

Born a free woman
I was born a free woman

We saw the traitors hide in university and school
A new invasion army the same old foreign rule
Defenders of Europe, the hussar and the lance
The Turul bird is rising flying leading our advance

Born a free woman
I was born a free woman

Born a free woman
I was born a free woman

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from Airing from Kolyma, released June 20, 2018

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