Talking birmingham jam (talking birmingham jail) chords by 
Phil Ochs 
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Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
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B
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C#
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Walking
B
down to Birmingham,
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C#
way down south in Dixieland,
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B
I thought that I would stop a while,
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C#
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take a vaca tion, southern style,
B
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got some southern hospitality,
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down there in a southern
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hos pital.
Oh, all the signs said, welcome in
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Signed by Governor Wal
lace and Rin Tin Tin
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They said, come along and
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watch the fights
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While we feed our dogs on civil rights
B
Now, don't get us wrong
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C#
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Some of our best Negroes
are friends
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Well, I've seen travel
in many ways
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I've traveled in cars and old sub ways
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But in Birmingham some people chose to
fly down the street from a fire hole
B
Doing some hard traveling
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from hydrants of plenty
Well a pack of dogs was standing by,
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I walked up to them and I said,
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B
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Hi I asked one dog what they all were doing,
he walked up to me and started chewing
B
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I said, hold it, I'm from the ASPCA,
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Society for Prevention of
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Cruelty to Agitators.
And I said, there must
be some men around,
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there can 't be only dogs in town.
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They said, sure we have
old Bull Connor,
there he goes a -walkin' yonder.
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Growin' some raw meat to the mayor,
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feedin' bones to the city coun cil.
You know Governor Wallace
doesn't mean no harm
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Can't you see he's got a lot of charm
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He's protectin' us whites,
B
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both rich and poor
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Standin' in the schoolhouse door
B
Crackin' jokes,
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talkin' to Huntley Brinkley
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Servin' jury duty, gettin' re -elected
So I asked them why they spent their time
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with se gregation on their mind
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They said, you don't like
to live this way,
get out of here
Go back to the U .S .A.
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Live with all them Russian
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New York folk singers
Some say they've passed
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their darkest hour
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Those mod erates are back in power
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Oh, they listen close with open ears,
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they'll help us out in a
couple of hundred years
B
But don't push them, whatever you do,
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or else you get those extrem ists back in
You see, Alabama is a sovereign state with
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sovereign dogs and sover eign hate
They stand for the Bible,
for the Consti tution,
they stand against
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communist re volution
B
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C#
They say it's pinkos like you
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that freed the slaves,
and they're right.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B C#
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Capo: 4
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