Only a Pawn in Their Game chords by Morrissey
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Verse 1
(D major) (G major) A bullet from the back of the bush
Took (C major) (G major) Medgar Evers' blood
A finger fired the trigger to his (D major) name
A (G major) handle hid out (C major) in the (G major) dark
A hand (C major) set the (G major) spark
Behind (C major) the man's (G major) brain
But he (C major) can't be (G major) blamed
He's only a (D major) pawn in (G major) their game
Verse 2
A south politician (A minor) preaches
(C major) to the poor white (G major) man
You got more than the blacks,
don't com (D major) plain
"You're better (G major) than them,
you been born with white skin", they explain
And the (C major) negro's (G major) name
Is used, it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the (C major) poor (G major) 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) in their (G major) game (A minor) (G major)
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Verse 3
The (G major) deputy sheriffs, the sol (A minor) diers,
the gov (C major) ernors get (G major) paid
And the marshals and cops get (D major) the same
But the poor (G major) white man's used in the
hands of them all like a tool
He's (C major) taught (G major) in his school
From the start by the rule
(C major) That the laws (G major) are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
About the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn (D major) (C major) in (G major) their game
Interlude 1
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
From the (G major) poverty shacks
Verse 4
He (A minor) looks through the cracks (C major) to the tracks (G major)
And the hoof beats pound in his brain (D major)
(G major) And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn (D major) in their (G major) game
Verse 5
The day (G major) Medgar Evers was (A minor) buried
from the (C major) bullet he caught (G major)
They lowered him down like (D major) a king
But when the (G major) shadowy
sun sets on the one
(C major) Who (G major) fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain
Only a pawn (D major) (G major) in their game
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(G major) (D major) (C major) (D major) (A minor) (D major) (G major)
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Morrissey
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