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