Alabama 58 chords by The Dubliners
Verse 1
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In Alabama 1958
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The cost of human life is very low
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A man that's black is trampled down
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Just like they were a thousand years ago
Verse 2
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But these are more enlightened days
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No room for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
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Verse 3
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Two thousand years ago a million men
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Were gathered into royal Egypt's land
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Were bound together, forced to build
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Pyramids of stone in desert sand
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But these are more enlightened days No
Verse 4
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room for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
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Mary's son walked through a land of woe
Verse 5
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Dreaming of the world as it could be
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But the good and lawful men of Rome
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Bound him like a robber to a tree
Verse 6
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But these are more enlightened days
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No room for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
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In Britain just a hundred
Verse 7
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years ago
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The jails were full of good and
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hungry men
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Diggers, fenians, many more
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Fought and died but rose to fight again
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But these are more enlightened days No room
Verse 8
for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
Verse 9
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Last year a negro stole a dollar bill
The judge he said "We
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mustn't be severe
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Instead of death we'll give him
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life imprisonment
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To show there's justice here"
Verse 10
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For these are more enlightened days
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No room for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
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And so throughout the ages you have
Verse 11
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seen
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How progress marches ever on its way
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No rack, no wheel, no Span
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ish boot
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For Alabama's prisoners today
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Verse 12
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For these are more enlightened days
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No room for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
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Now every man may walk his road in peace
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For all are free!
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In these more enlightened days No room
Verse 13
for all these savage ways
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Leave and let them go
Now every man should
walk his road in peace
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Let man be free!
Alabama 58
The Dubliners
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