Jody Brooks (born November 29, 1941) is a country music singer. Born as Myrna Joy Miller, she was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Oklahoma.
Discovered by actor Dale Robertson, she began her career in the early 1960s as a folk folk music /pop singer popular music , singing in the Los Angeles area and appearing on Tom Paxton's television series. She released her first album on Capitol Records in 1964 and had a modest pop hit that... [read more] Home Of The Brave - Lyrics
Home Of The Brave
Jody Miller
(B. Mann-C. Weil)
The school board says "he can't come to school, no more"
unless he wears his hair like he wore it before.
The PTA and all the mothers, say he ought to look like the others.
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
The kids all laugh at his hair and funny clothes.
And more than once he's gone home with a bloody nose
he's not like them and they can't ignore it. So they all hate him for it.
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
It really burns me up, when they put him down
He's the only one whose saying something in this whole town
Instead of those the trouble they hand him, why don't they try to understand him.
Home of the brave, land of the free
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
he never hurt nobody,
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
he just a little bit different.
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
You got to understand him.
why won't you let him be what he wants to be
Transcribed by Robert Smith
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording
and are for personal use and research interest only.
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