>Does this sound like's he's singing about choosing commodities? Joanna
It doesn't and he wasn't. But I think the song also exemplifies how easy it is to talk about freedom and get away with sounding heavy. He did make the song up on the fly, having been given the task of keeping a gazillion people happy until other acts arrived. He had to play 3 hours. Repeating Freedom over and over to a bunch of hippies wasn't a hard sell.
He also played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert. What does freedom mean in that context? It is a word people use without thinking about what it means, no?