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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Only a Pawn in Their Game</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="../03_times/index.htm">The Times They Are A-changin'</a> (1964)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21 Capo 2nd fret (sounding key A major)
  22 </p>
  23 <p>The figure C /b /a G which at every transition from C to G through the
  24 whole song, is played:</p>
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  26 <pre class="tab">
  27   C/b/a   G
  28   .       |
  29 |-0-----|-3--
  30 |-1-----|-0--
  31 |-0-----|-0--
  32 |-2-0-0-|-0--
  33 |-3-2-0-|-2--
  34 |-------|-3--
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  36
  37 <p>Verses 3-5 are played as the second verse, with the Bm' chord x04430
  38 in the first line</p>
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  43   G               C   /b /a G         C      /b /a  G
  44 A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood.
  45   G                C          /b  D/a
  46 A finger fired the trigger to his name.
  47 /c /b G          C   /b /a  G
  48 A     handle hid out in the dark
  49   C            G
  50 A hand set the spark
  51     C             G
  52 Two eyes took the aim
  53   C            G
  54 Behind a man's brain
  55     C           G
  56 But he can't be blamed
  57      G /b C D    C  /b    G
  58 He's only a pawn in their game.
  59
  60   G         Bm'    Am              C          G
  61 A South politician preaches to the poor white man,
  62          G             C       /b       D
  63 &quot;You got more than the blacks, don't complain.
  64 /c /b  G           C              /b        /a    G      C      G
  65 You're better than them, you been born with white skin,&quot; they explain.
  66 And the Negro's name
  67 Is used it is plain
  68 For the politician's gain
  69 As he rises to fame
  70 And the poor white remains
  71 On the caboose of the train
  72 But it ain't him to blame
  73 He's only a pawn in their game.
  74
  75 The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid,
  76 And the marshals and cops get the same,
  77 But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool.
  78 He's taught in his school
  79 From the start by the rule
  80 That the laws are with him
  81 To protect his white skin
  82 To keep up his hate
  83 So he never thinks straight
  84 'Bout the shape that he's in
  85 But it ain't him to blame
  86 He's only a pawn in their game.
  87
  88 From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks,
  89 And the hoof beats pound in his brain.
  90 And he's taught how to walk in a pack
  91 Shoot in the back
  92 With his fist in a clinch
  93 To hang and to lynch
  94 To hide 'neath the hood
  95 To kill with no pain
  96 Like a dog on a chain
  97 He ain't got no name
  98 But it ain't him to blame
  99 He's only a pawn in their game.
 100
 101 Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught.
 102 They lowered him down as a king.
 103 /c /b        G       C   G           C
 104 But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
 105 That fired the gun
 106 He'll see by his grave
 107 On the stone that remains
 108 Carved next to his name
 109 His epitaph plain:
 110 Only a pawn in their game.
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