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On March 22, 1977, at Brushy Mountain Prison in Tennessee Richard Sprague (Chief Counsel for the House Select Committe on Assassinations), Robert Lehner (Deputy Chief Counsel), Jack Kershaw (Counsel to James Earl Ray), Mary Noel-Kershaw, Gary Revel and others began the first HSCA interview of James Earl Ray. All those present were commissioned by Chief Counsel Richard Sprague of the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in an effort to prosecute any and all conspirators involved. Richard Sprague was soon replaced by G. Robert Blakey.

Later that year Gary Revel and attorney Mary Noel-Kershaw wrote the song, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER, that contained a story of a conspiracy related to the King killing. In a few months Gary recorded the song and released it as a single 45 rpm record on the Rebel Label.

The song was published by Milene Music Inc. the ASCAP arm of Acuff-Rose Music and soon received front page publicity as a James Earl Ray Promotion Gimmick in the newspaper the Nashville Banner. Later Opryland Music Group bought the publishing. In 2002 the publishing was sold to SONY/ATV TUNES LLC-SONY/ATV MILENE MUSIC. Sony continues to publish the song and the new recording remixed with the April 4, 1968 Memphis Police Dispatch recording announcing 'The Reverend King has been shot' is available on this webpage. The lyrics to the song are here as well.


THEY SLEW THE DREAMER

(LYRICS TO SONG)

EARLY IN THE EVENING
THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN
HE STOOD ON THE BALCONY
IN A TROUBLED PART OF TOWN
CALLING TO THE SINGER
SAID SING MY FAVORITE SONG
TAKE MY HAND
PRECIOUS LORD LEAD ME HOME

THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
LET A DREAMER TAKE THE FALL
THEY TURNED THE COURTROOM
INTO A COSTUME BALL
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
MADE ANOTHER SING THEIR SONG
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
BUT THE DREAM LIVES ON

THE SHOT RANG OUT IT'S WARNING
THE DREAMER FELL TO DIE
RAUL SLIPPED INTO HIDING
FOLLOWED BY THE NIGHT
THE REAPER NOW IS READY
IT'S TIME TO AWAKE
SLEEPING DREAMER
TELL US WHO ARE THEY

THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
LET A DREAMER TAKE THE FALL
THEY TURNED THE COURTROOM
INTO A COSTUME BALL
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
MADE ANOTHER SING THEIR SONG
THEY SLEW THE DREAMER
BUT THE DREAM LIVES ON

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Words and Music BY Gary Revel and Mary Noel
PUBLISHING - SONY/ATV TUNES LLC-SONY/ATV MILENE MUSIC
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright 1977 by Gary Revel and Mary Noel



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The Gary Revel recording was released as a single on the Rebel Label in 1977 and then as a cut on the Revel album by Star City Records Inc. in 1979. A new sound recording of the song is now available on iTunes on the Jongleur Music label.

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