Only a Pawn in Their Game chords by Bob Dylan
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Verse 1
(G major) A bullet from the back (C major) of a (G major) bush
Took (C major) (G major) Medgar Evers' blood
A finger fired (C major) the trigger to his (D major) name
A (C major) (G major) handle hid out (C major) in the dark (G major)
A (C major) hand (G major) set the spark
(C major) Two eyes took the aim (G major)
Be (C major) hind a man's (G major) brain
(C major) But he can (G major) 't be (C major) blamed (G major)
He's only a pawn (D major) in their (G major) game
Verse 2
(G major) A South politi (D major) cian (A minor) preaches to
(C major) the poor white man (G major)
"You got more than the blacks, (C major)
don't complain (D major)
(C major) You're (G major) better than them,
(C major) you been born (G major) with (A minor) white (G major) skin," they (C major) ex plain (G major)
An (C major) d the Negro's (G major) name
Is used, it is plain
For the (C major) politician's (G major) gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the ca (C major) boose (G major) of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn (D major) (C major) in (G major) their game
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Verse 3
(G major)
The deputy sher (D major) iffs, the (A minor) soldiers,
the governors (C major) get (G major) paid
And the marshals and cops (E minor) (C major) get the same (D major)
(E minor) But the poor (G major) white man's (C major) used in
the hands of them all like a tool (G major)
He's (C major) taught (G major) in his school
From the (C major) start by the rule (G major)
That the (C major) laws are with him (G major)
To pro (C major) tect his white skin (G major)
To keep up his hate
So he (C major) never (G major) thinks straight
'Bout the (C major) shape (G major) that he's in
But it (C major) ain't (G major) him to blame
He's only a pawn (D major) (C major) in their (G major) game
Verse 4
(G major)
From the poverty shack (D major) s,
he look (A minor) s from the cracks (C major) to the tracks (G major)
And the hoofbeats pound (C major) in his (D major) brain
(C major) And (G major) he's taught how to walk (C major) in a pack (G major)
(C major) Shoot (G major) in the back
With his (C major) fist (G major) in a clinch
To (C major) hang (G major) and (C major) to lynch (G major)
To (C major) hide 'neath the hood (G major)
To (C major) kill with no (G major) pain
Like a (C major) dog (G major) on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it (C major) ain't him (G major) to blame
He's only a pawn (D major) (C major) in their (G major) game
Verse 5
(G major)
Today, (D major) Medgar Evers (A minor) was buried
from the (C major) bullet he caught (G major)
They lowered him down (C major) as (D major) a king
But (C major) when the shad (G major) owy sun (C major)
sets (G major) on the (C major) one
That fired (G major) the gun
He'll see by his grave
(C major) On the stone that remain (G major) s
(C major) Carved next to his (G major) name
His epi (C major) taph (G major) plain
Only a (D major) pawn (C major) in (G major) their game
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Bob Dylan
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