Pete took the government's list of banned songs and strolled on stage. But they insisted: he must not sing any of these songs. Pete studied it mournfully, saying it looked an awful lot like his set list. As Pete prepared to go on, government officials handed him a list of songs he was not allowed to sing.
More than a hundred thousand people were in the stadium, where rock bands had played all day. A pro-democracy movement was gaining strength and to prove it, they invited America's best-known freedom singer to Spain. Francisco Franco's fascist government, the last of the dictatorships that started World War II, was still in power but declining. In the 1970s, Pete Seeger was invited to sing in Barcelona, Spain.
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