| Songs of Free Men | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Paul Robeson |
| Cover: | Songs of Free Men.jpg |
| Released: | 1943 |
| Recorded: | 1942 |
| Label: | Columbia Masterworks |
| Prev Title: | Chee Lai – Songs of New China |
| Prev Year: | 1941 |
| Next Title: | Spirituals |
| Next Year: | 1946 |
Songs of Free Men is a studio album by Paul Robeson, recorded in early 1942 and released on Columbia Masterworks in 1943.
The album was originally issued in 1943 as a set of four 10-inch 78-r.p.m. records, catalog number MM 543.[1]
In 1998, the album had a re-release on CD with 17 additional tracks including "Ol' Man River" from Showboat.[2] It charted on Billboards classical albums chart at number 47. Later, in the critics' poll published at the end of the year, the magazine's editor-in-chief Timothy White would list it among the best albums of 1998, at number 10 (tied with another Robeson's album, The Peace Arc Concerts).[3]