Key: C major
Verse 1
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Some people would mistreat me
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You know my memory
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takes me there
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It's a shame and it's a pity
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Dm
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when I had to leave my home
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It was 1963,
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when I had to leave my home
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so I figured I'd
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Dm
better get going
We were marching for our freedom,
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I thought times were gonna
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change
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We were marching for our freedom,
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change
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But they didn't like it,
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and I had to hop a fence
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I was run ning for my life,
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and I ain't been back there since
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It was 1963, when I had to
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leave my home
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Dm
Things was gonna get hard,
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so I figured I'd better get going
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Oh yeah, oh yeah,
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I'd better get going
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Am
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Yes, the law was out to get me
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So I had to leave that town
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so I had to leave that town
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Well, I left Greenwood,
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Mississippi,
I was Florida bound
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Now!
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So now you know the story,
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an d the truth it has
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been told
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and the truth it has been told
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I left Mississippi when
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Yeah, I was a
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I was runnin' and I was jumpin'
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On the big set, down through alleys,
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Yes, I was leaving that town,
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and I was floored about
Oh!
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