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“Abraham, Martin and John” is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler and first recorded by Dion. It is a tribute to the memories of icons of social change, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written as a response to the assassinations of King and the younger Kennedy in April and June 1968. Each of the first three verses features one of the men named in the song’s title, for example: :Has anybody here, seen my old friend Abraham - :Can you tell me where he’s gone? :He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young :But I just looked around and he’s gone. After a bridge, the fourth and final verse mentions Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, and ends with a description of him walking over a hill with the other three... Read on...