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Ballad Of Old Monroe easy guitar chords by 
Pete Seeger
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Verse 1
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Gather round me, you Americans,
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A
if you believe in right and wrong.
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G
A
The newspapers have ignored this,
I'll tell it in a song.
D
The papers and the TV
G
never told a story straight.
D
G
A
So listen now, I will to you,
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A
the honest facts relate.
D
Let me take you to a corner
G
of this world
that we call free.
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G
It's Monroe, North Carolina,
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A
D
where the Klan rules by decree.
Now, maybe you thought
the Klan was dead
G
D
and buried long ago.
G
Well, in August 1961
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A
you should have been in old Monroe.
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It's a town of about ten thousand,
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D
it could be a pretty place.
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G
D
But there's uncertainty and fear
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D
G
D
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to be seen on many a face.
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A
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A railroad slices through Monroe,
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A
it's not one town, but two towns.
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D
On the right, Monroe is white,
A
and on the left is Newtown.
D
Eighteen Freedom Riders
G
came in Au gust 61,
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G
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at the call of young Rob Williams,
A
to see what could be done.
D
Robert Williams was a leader,
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A
a gi ant of a man.
D
G
A
He said, let's protect our families
D
from the violence of the Klan.
Well, the Klansmen, they got busy,
G
D
they came from everywhere,
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D
All armed with guns and pistols,
A
and Chief Mooney didn't care.
D
They staged a bloody riot,
G
D
and the deck was surely stacked,
G
Cause the only ones arrested
D
A
were the ones who were
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G
D
G
attacked.
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A
D
Now listen for the frame -up
G
Did the Klan lay a plan
D
G
D
To trap Williams and his friends
A
And make him flee the land
D
A couple by name of Stiegel
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A
Were driving in a car
D
G
They drove right into Newtown
D
A
That was a bit too far
D
For Negroes live in Newtown
G
And on that fatal day
D
G
D
They'd set their lines of self -defense
A
against the KKK.
D
The Stigols,
they were frightened.
G
They're stopped at Williams'
A
door.
G
D
And Robert Williams told the crowd
A
to let the Stigols go.
D
He said, come on inside my house,
G
A
you'll get hurt if you stay here.
G
And Williams led the Stigols
D
A
inside his own house there.
D
And though this man had saved them,
G
police got on his trail.
D
G
Nothing less than a kid
A
napped charge,
D
twenty years to life in jail.
And then the mighty FBI
G
joined in
to help the Klan,
D
G
D
With vicious posters tacked up
A
in post offices through the land,
D
Saying Rob was armed and dangerous,
G
and schizophrenic too,
D
G
As though to shoot him down
D
on sight
A
would be the safest thing to do.
D
But Rob escaped to Canada,
G
and then to Mexico,
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G
an d now he stays in Cuba
A
D
where the FBI can't go.
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A
D
G
D
A
D
And now a make -believe trial
G
comes in 1962
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G
an d we are wondering
D
if in Monroe
A
that justice can come through.
D
Perhaps when it gets
to the Supreme Court
G
they'll get a better shake,
D
G
A
But it's in the hearts of you an d me,
the decision must be made.
D
For we are all as guilty,
G
till we make that day to come,
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G
D
When Robert Williams can re turn
A
D
to his Union County home.
So listen, Mr. President,
G
and listen, Brother Bob,
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G
A
If you de fend the free world,
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A
here is a little job.
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If you don't believe the words I say,
G
go see it for yourself.
D
G
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Go down and visit old Monroe,
but be careful of your health.
D
There's lots of good people in Monroe,
G
D
but they are scared to say,
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D
Go down to old Monroe, Bob,
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D
tell them this is the USA.
They say the German people
G
the crimes of Hitler never knew,
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G
D
Well, let American people see
A
what fascists here can do,
D
For we've had enough of murder,
G
D
we've had enough of lies,
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G
And the Ku Klux Klan
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and ol' Monroe
is due to be surprised.
D
For in Washington and round
the world
G
we're being asked today
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G
Is Monroe, North Carolina
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A
in the good ol' USA?
D
Monroe, Monroe,
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D
I hear those voices say
G
D
Is Monroe, North Carolina
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D
in the good ol' USA?
Bye
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