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Only a Pawn in Their Game chords by 
Morrissey
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Verse 1
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G
A bullet from the back of the bush
C
G
Took Medgar Evers' blood
D
A finger fired the trigger to his name
G
C
G
A handle hid out in the dark
C
G
A hand set the spark
C
G
Behind the man's brain
C
G
But he can't be blamed
D
G
He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 2
Am
A south politician preaches
C
G
to the poor white man
You got more than the blacks,
D
don't complain
G
"You're better than them,
you been born with white skin", they explain
C
G
And the negro's name
Is used, it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
C
G
And the poor white remains
C
G
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
D
G
Am
G
He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 3
G
Am
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers,
C
G
the governors get paid
D
And the marshals and cops get the same
G
But the poor white man's used in the
hands of them all like a tool
C
G
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
C
G
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
C
G
He's only a pawn in their game
Interlude 1
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D
G
D
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From the poverty shacks
Verse 4
Am
C
G
He looks through the cracks to the tracks
D
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
G
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
G
He's only a pawn in their game
Verse 5
G
Am
The day Medgar Evers was buried
C
G
from the bullet he caught
D
They lowered him down like a king
G
But when the shadowy
sun sets on the one
C
G
Who fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain
D
G
Only a pawn in their game
Outro 1
G
D
C
D
Am
D
G
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