--- Michael Hirsch <mmh at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Doug:
>
> So you get the creeps when somebody exhalts in the
> punishment Lyndie English will receive? Do you also
> quiver 'n shake when civil rights leaders join
> Mickey Schwerner's widow in saying hard time for the
> septogenarian killer racist of her husband is long
> overdue? If not, why not? That Mississippi fucker
> was just a pawn in their game, too?
ONLY A PAWN IN THEIR GAME
Words and Music by Bob Dylan
1963, 1964 Warner Bros. Inc;
Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood. A finger fired the trigger to his name. A handle hid out in the dark A hand set the spark Two eyes took the aim Behind a man's brain But he can't be blamed He's only a pawn in their game.
A South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used it is plain For the politician's gain As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game.
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get
paid,
And the marshals and cops get the same,
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all
like a tool.
He's taught in his school
>From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
>From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to
the tracks,
And the hoof beats pound in his brain.
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught. They lowered him down as a king. But when the shadowy sun sets on the one That fired the gun He'll see by his grave On the stone that remains Carved next to his name His epitaph plain: Only a pawn in their game.
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