Only a Pawn in Their Game chords by
Morrissey

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

D

D

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G

G

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A bullet from the back of the bush

C

C

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G

G

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Took Medgar Evers' blood

D

D

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A finger fired the trigger to his name

G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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A handle hid out in the dark

C

C

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G

G

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A hand set the spark

C

C

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G

G

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Behind the man's brain

C

C

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G

G

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But he can 't be blamed

D

D

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G

G

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He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 2

Am

Am

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A south politician preaches

C

C

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G

G

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to the poor white man

You got more than the blacks,

D

D

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don't com plain

G

G

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"You're better than them,

you been born with white skin", they explain

C

C

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G

G

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And the negro's name

Is used, it is plain

For the politician's gain

As he rises to fame

C

C

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G

G

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And the poor white remains

C

C

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G

G

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On the ca boose of the train

But it ain't him to blame

D

D

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G

G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 3

G

G

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Am

Am

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The deputy sheriffs, the sol diers,

C

C

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G

G

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the gov ernors get paid

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D

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And the marshals and cops get the same

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G

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But the poor white man's used in the

hands of them all like a tool

C

C

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G

G

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He's taught in his school

From the start by the rule

C

C

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G

G

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That the laws 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

D

D

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C

C

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G

G

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He's only a pawn in their game

Interlude 1

G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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From the poverty shacks

Verse 4

Am

Am

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C

C

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G

G

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He looks through the cracks to the tracks

D

D

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And the hoof beats pound in his brain

G

G

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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

D

D

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G

G

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He's only a pawn in their game

Verse 5

G

G

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Am

Am

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The day Medgar Evers was buried

C

C

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G

G

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from the bullet he caught

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D

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They lowered him down like a king

G

G

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But when the shadowy

sun sets on the one

C

C

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G

G

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Who fired the gun

He'll see by his grave

On the stone that remains

Carved next to his name

His epitaph plain

D

D

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G

G

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Only a pawn in their game

Outro 1

G

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D

D

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C

C

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D

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Am

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D

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G

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