Only a Pawn in Their Game chords by
Bob Dylan

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Key: A major

Verse 1
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
A bullet from the back of a bush
C C 
 
G G 
 
Took Medgar Evers' blood
C C 
 
D D 
 
A finger fired the trigger to his name
C C 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
A  handle hid out in the dark
C C 
 
G G 
 
A hand set the spark
C C 
 
G G 
 
Two eyes took the aim
C C 
 
G G 
 
Behind a man's brain
C C 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
But he can't be blamed
D D 
 
G G 
 
He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 2
G G 
 
D D 
 
Am Am 
 
A South politician preaches to
C C 
 
G G 
 
the poor white man
C C 
 
"You got more than the blacks,
D D 
 
don't complain
C C 
 
G G 
 
You're better than them,
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G G 
 
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
you been born with white skin," they ex plain
C C 
 
G G 
 
And the Negro's name
Is used, it is plain
C C 
 
G G 
 
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
C C 
 
G G 
 
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 3
G G 
 
D D 
 
Am Am 
 
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers,
C C 
 
G G 
 
the governors get paid
Em Em 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 
And the marshals and cops get the same
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
But the poor white man's used in
G G 
 
the hands of them all like a tool
C C 
 
G G 
 
He's taught in his school
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G G 
 
From the start by the rule
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G G 
 
That the laws are with him
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G G 
 
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
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G G 
 
So he never thinks straight
C C 
 
G G 
 
'Bout the shape that he's in
C C 
 
G G 
 
But it ain't him to blame
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 4
G G 
 
D D 
 
From the poverty shacks,
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
he looks   from the cracks to the tracks
C C 
 
D D 
 
And the hoofbeats pound in his brain
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G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
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G G 
 
Shoot in the back
C C 
 
G G 
 
With his fist in a clinch
C C 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
To hang and to lynch
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G G 
 
To hide 'neath the hood
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G G 
 
To kill with no pain
C C 
 
G G 
 
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
C C 
 
G G 
 
But it ain't him to blame
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 5
G G 
 
D D 
 
Am Am 
 
Today, Medgar Evers was buried
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G G 
 
from the bullet he caught
C C 
 
D D 
 
They lowered him down as a king
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G G 
 
C C 
 
But when the shadowy sun
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C C 
 
sets on the one
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That fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
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G G 
 
On the stone that remains
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G G 
 
Carved next to his name
C C 
 
G G 
 
His epitaph plain
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Only a pawn in their game

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