Go Home, Outsider!

There’s some dispute about whether Paul Simon wrote this one for Andrew Goodman, who had been a college classmate, and was one of three Freedom Riders murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, and the initial struggle for civil rights.

The initial struggle.

As you’ll see and hear, this song is as relevant today is it was in 1965, when it was written.

“Go home, outsider!” Simon has an angry mob telling his courageous brother, who was the kind of outsider we all should aspire to be.

This is Simon and Garfunkel at their folkiest with “He Was My Brother”.