Key: A major
Verse 1
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A bullet from the back of the bush
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Took Medgar Evers' blood
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A finger fired the trigger to his name
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A handle lit out in the dark
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A hand set the spark
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Two eyes took the aim
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Behind a man's brain,
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He's only a pawn in their game
The South politician
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preaches to the poor white man
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You're better than them,
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you've been born with white skin,
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The negro's name is used, it is plain
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For the politician's game
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as he rises to fame
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And the poor white remains
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But it ain't him to blame,
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he's only a pawn in their game
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the soldiers,
And the marshals and the
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cops get the same
But the poor white man's
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used in the hands of a mole like a tool
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From the start by the rule
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To protect his white skin
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To keep up his hate
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About the shape that he's in,
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but it ain't him to blame.
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He's only a pawn in their game
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he looks from the cracks to the tracks
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And the hoofbeats pound in his brain
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He's taught how to walk in a pack
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Shoot in the back with his fist in a clench
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To hide beneath the hood
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To kill with no pain
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Like a dog on a chain
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He ain't got no name
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But it ain't him to blame
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He's only a pawn in their game
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Today Medgar Evers was buried
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from the bullet he caught
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They lowered him down as a king
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Sets on the one that fired the gun,
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he'll see by his grave
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On the stone that remains
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Carved next to his name, his epitaph plain
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Only a pawn in their game
Verse 2
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