Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in The Sky"

 


Norman Greenbaum with his 1970 rock and roll tune "Spirit in the Sky".  A message in this song, really, is about the afterlife and has a very spiritual meaning, about death and then, what the afterlife would or will be, should you believe that a better place exists for humanity after our time on earth is over.  

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