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Only a Pawn in Their Game easy guitar chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

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Verse 1
G
C
G

A bullet from the back of a bush
C
G

Took Medgar Evers' blood
C
D

A finger fired the trigger to his name
C
G
C
G

A handle hid out in the dark
C
G

A hand set the spark
C
G

Two eyes took the aim
C
G

Behind a man's brain
C
G
C
G

But he can't be blamed
D
G

He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 2
G
D
Am

A South politician preaches to
C
G

the poor white man
C

"You got more than the blacks,
D

don't complain
C
G

You're better than them,
C
G
Am
G
C
G

you been born with white skin," they ex plain
C
G

And the Negro's name

Is used, it is plain
C
G

For the politician's gain

As he rises to fame

And the poor white remains
C
G

On the caboose of the train

But it ain't him to blame
D
C
G

He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 3
G

D
Am

The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers,
C
G

the governors get paid
Em
C
D

And the marshals and cops get the same
Em
G
C

But the poor white man's used in
G

the hands of them all like a tool
C
G

He's taught in his school
C
G

From the start by the rule
C
G

That the laws are with him
C
G

To protect his white skin

To keep up his hate
C
G

So he never thinks straight
C
G

'Bout the shape that he's in
C
G

But it ain't him to blame
D
C
G

He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 4
G

D

From the poverty shacks,
Am
C
G

he looks from the cracks to the tracks
C
D

And the hoofbeats pound in his brain
C
G
C
G

And he's taught how to walk in a pack
C
G

Shoot in the back
C
G

With his fist in a clinch
C
G
C
G

To hang and to lynch
C
G

To hide 'neath the hood
C
G

To kill with no pain
C
G

Like a dog on a chain

He ain't got no name
C
G

But it ain't him to blame
D
C
G

He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 5
G

D
Am

Today, Medgar Evers was buried
C
G

from the bullet he caught
C
D

They lowered him down as a king
C
G
C

But when the shadowy sun
G
C

sets on the one
G

That fired the gun

He'll see by his grave
C
G

On the stone that remains
C
G

Carved next to his name
C
G

His epitaph plain
D
C
G

Only a pawn in their game

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