Die Gedanken Sind Frei

I grew up during the 60s and 70s with a hippie mother, so of course, I'm a Pete Seeger fan.  (Mom exposed me to a lot of folk singers, and given the choice between listening to Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, it's Pete all the way.)  I can still remember the feeling of drawing the album carefully out of the sleeve, balanced between my hands so that I wouldn't put a fingerprint on the vinyl, and dropping the needle on the album. 

I loved most of his stuff, although when I was younger, I must admit the funny ones drew me more than the hardcore - it took me a while working for the Corps to really appreciate "Waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on".  I still know the all the words to "The Pill" and "Queen Anne Front and Mary-Ann Behind".

But what song to say goodbye with?  I've seen a few people going with "Where have all the flowers gone?", but for me... it's got to be "Die Gedanken Sind Frei":

Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts freely flower
Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts give me power
No scholar can map them
No hunter can trap them
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind frei

I think as I please
And this gives me pleasure
My conscience decrees
This right I must treasure
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind frei

Tyrants can take me
And throw me in prison
My thoughts will burst forth
Like blossoms in season
Foundations may crumble
And structures may tumble
But free men shall cry
Die gedanken sind frei