Only a Pawn in Their Game

Only a Pawn in Their Game easy guitar chords by Morrissey

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  • Verse 1
    A bullet from 
    the back 
    of the 
    bush 

    Took 
    Medgar Evers' blood 

    A finger 
    fired the trigger 
    to his 
    name 

    handle 
    hid out 
    in the 
    dark 

    A hand 
    set the 
    spark 

    Behind 
    the man's 
    brain 

    But he 
    can
    't be 
    blamed 

    He's only 
    pawn 
    in 
    their game 

    Verse 2
    south 
    politician 
    preaches 

    to the poor 
    white 
    man 

    You got 
    more than 
    the blacks, 

    don't com
    plain 

    "You're 
    better 
    than 
    them, 

    you been 
    born 
    with white 
    skin", 
    they 
    explain 

    And the 
    negro's 
    name 

    Is 
    used, 
    it 
    is plain 

    For the 
    politician's 
    gain 

    As 
    he rises 
    to fame 

    And the 
    poor 
    white 
    remains 

    On 
    the ca
    boose 
    of 
    the train 

    But it 
    ain't 
    him 
    to blame 

    He's 
    only 
    a pawn 
    in 
    their 
    game 

    Verse 3
    The 
    deputy 
    sheriffs, 
    the sol
    diers, 

    the gov
    ernors 
    get 
    paid 

    And 
    the marshals 
    and 
    cops 
    get 
    the same 

    But 
    the poor 
    white 
    man's 
    used 
    in the 

    hands 
    of them 
    all 
    like 
    a tool 

    He's 
    taught 
    in his 
    school 

    From the 
    start 
    by 
    the rule 

    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 

    He's 
    only 
    a pawn 
    in 
    their 
    game 

    Interlude 1

    From 
    the 
    poverty 
    shacks 
    Verse 4

    He 
    looks 
    through 
    the cracks 
    to the tracks 

    And 
    the 
    hoof 
    beats 
    pound 
    in 
    his brain 

    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 
    in 
    their 
    game 

    Verse 5
    The day 
    Medgar Evers 
    was 
    buried 

    from 
    the 
    bullet 
    he 
    caught 

    They 
    lowered 
    him 
    down 
    like 
    king 

    But 
    when the 
    shadowy 

    sun 
    sets 
    on 
    the one 

    Who 
    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 
    in 
    their 
    game 

    Outro 1


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