The Ballad Of Jimmy Wilson chords by
Ewan Maccoll

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Key: C minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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In Alabama, 1958,

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the cost of human life is very low.

A man that's black is trampled down

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just like men were a thousand years ago.

But these are more enlightened days

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Through old men an d savage ways

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we left long ago

Now everyone may walk his road in peace

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For all are free

Five thousand years ago a million men

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Were gathered in to roy

al Egypt's hands

Were bound together, forced to build

Pyramids of stone in desert sands

But these are more enlightened days,

cruel men and savage ways,

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we left long ago.

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for all are free.

Mary's son walked through

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a land of woe,

dreaming of the world as it could be.

The good and lawful men of Rome

nailed him

like a rubber to the tree.

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cruel men and savage ways,

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we left long ago

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for all are free

In Britain just a hundred years ago,

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the jails were full of poor and

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hungry men

Diggus, Chartus,

many more fought and died

and rose to fight again

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cruel men and savage ways

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We left long ago

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Now every man may walk his road in peace

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For all are free

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Last year a Negro stole a dollar bill

The judge, said,

we mustn't be severe

Instead of death we'll give him life

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Imprisonment to show

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there's justice here

These are more enlightened days,

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cruel men and savage ways

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we left long ago.

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Now every man may walk his road in peace

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for all are free.

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And so throughout the

ages we have seen

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how progress marches ever on its way.

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No rack, no wheel, no Spanish boot

for Alabama's prisoners today.

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cruel men and savage ways

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we left long ago.

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Now every man may walk his road in peace

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for all are free.

The plague still runs

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throughout the world today.

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Johannesburg to Notting Hill and back.

A plague of ignorance and hate.

Men walk in fear

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because their skin is black.

So in these more enlightened days,

no room for all these savage ways,

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leave them, let them go.

Now every man should

walk his road in peace,

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let men be free.

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