Talking birmingham jam (talking birmingham jail) chords by Phil Ochs
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Verse 1
(D major) (G major) (D major) (A major) (D major)
Walking
down to (G major) Birmingham,
(D major) way down south in Dixieland, (A major)
I (D major) thought that I would (G major) stop a while,
(D major) take a vaca (A major) tion, southern style, (D major)
got some (G major) southern hospitality, (D major)
(A major) down there in a southern
hos (D major) pital. (D major)
Oh, all the signs said, welcome in
Signed by Governor (A major) Wal
lace and Rin Tin Tin
They said, (D major) come along and
(G major) watch the fights
(D major) While we feed our dogs on civil rights
Now, don't get (G major) us wrong
Some (D major) (A major) of our best Negroes (D major)
are friends
(D major) Well, I've seen travel
in many ways
I've traveled in cars (A major) and old (D major) subways (A major)
But (D major) in Birmingham some people chose to
fly down the street from a fire hole
Doing some (G major) hard traveling
(D major) from hydrants of plenty
Well a pack of dogs was standing by,
I walked up to them and I (A major) said,
Hi I (D major) asked one dog what they (G major) all were (D major) doing,
he walked up to me and started chewing
I said, (G major) hold it, I'm from the (D major) ASPCA,
(A major) Society for Prevention of
(D major) Cruelty to Agitators.
And I said, there must
be some men around,
there can (A major) 't be (D major) only dogs in (A major) town.
They (D major) said, sure we have
old Bull Connor,
there he goes a -walkin' yonder.
Growin' (G major) some raw meat to (D major) the mayor,
(A major)
feedin' bones to the city coun (D major) cil.
You know Governor Wallace
doesn't mean no harm
Can't you see he's got a lot of (A major) charm
He's (D major) protectin' us whites,
both (G major) rich and (D major) poor
(A major) Standin' in the (D major) schoolhouse door
Crackin' (G major) jokes,
talkin' (D major) to Huntley Brinkley
Servin' jury duty, (A major) gettin' re -elected (D major)
So I asked them why they spent their time
with (A major) se gregation on their mind
(D major) They said, you don't like
to live this way,
get out of here
Go back to the U .S .A.
Live with all (G major) them Russian
New (D major) (A major) York (D major) folk singers
Some say they've passed
their darkest (G major) hour
(A major) Those mod (D major) erates are back in power
(A major) Oh, (D major) they listen close with open ears,
they'll help us (D major) out in a
couple of hundred years
But don't push (G major) them, whatever you do,
(A major) or else you get those extrem (D major) ists back in
You see, Alabama is a sovereign state with
sovereign dogs and sover (D major) eign hate
They stand for the Bible,
for the Constitution,
they stand against
communist re (D major) volution
They say (G major) it's pinkos (D major) like (A major) you
that freed (D major) the slaves,
and they're right.
Talking birmingham jam (talking birmingham jail)
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