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