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I also really love this version for different reasons (because the backup singers are better and because it's live. And I like the tempo and especially the tempo changes for dramatic effect.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWMvecIoOY

...but I thought that the black and white Paul Robeson version is much more authentic, sincere, musical, and all-around awesome. And the solo vocals are better, obviously.

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This was the song I performed at my first vocal recital!
Watching Paul Robeson brings tears to my eyes. He's so good. You can just feel his emotions through the screen.

I've watched this 3 times now.
Can't you just hear me singing along with it now?

Love it. Good find, thepinky. <3

This was the song I performed at my first vocal recital!
Watching Paul Robeson brings tears to my eyes. He's so good. You can just feel his emotions through the screen.

I've watched this 3 times now.
Can't you just hear me singing along with it now?

Love it. Good find, thepinky. <3

I really like the version Paul Robeson did - and the English translation he sings is a bit more natural (though likely less literally correct).

"By any means necessary."

*geek

this kid has been listening to his granny's Paul Robeson 78's......

I'm amazed no one considered the irony of a white guy in a white suit surrounded by other white people in white suits on an all-white set singing a song a song intended for a black man (Paul Robeson) to sing.