Only a Pawn in Their Game

[00:10.00] A bullet from the back of the bush
[00:13.21] Took Medgar Evers' blood
[00:16.99] A finger fired the trigger to his name
[00:21.03] A handle hid out in the dark
[00:24.47] A hand set the spark
[00:26.77] Behind the man's brain
[00:29.11] But he can't be blamed
[00:31.34] He's only a pawn in their game
[00:38.74] A south politician preaches to the poor white man
[00:44.78] You got more than the blacks, don't complain
[00:49.48] "You're better than them, you been born with white skin", they explain
[00:56.06] And the negro's name
[00:58.54] Is used, it is plain
[01:00.76] For the politician's gain
[01:02.93] As he rises to fame
[01:05.11] And the poor white remains
[01:07.36] On the caboose of the train
[01:09.69] But it ain't him to blame
[01:11.79] He's only a pawn in their game
[01:19.63] The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
[01:26.29] And the marshals and cops get the same
[01:30.37] But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool
[01:36.76] He's taught in his school
[01:39.83] From the start by the rule
[01:41.83] That the laws are with him
[01:44.01] To protect his white skin
[01:46.31] To keep up his hate
[01:48.44] So he never thinks straight
[01:50.49] About the shape that he's in
[01:52.64] But it ain't him to blame
[01:54.94] He's only a pawn in their game
[02:11.53] From the poverty shacks
[02:13.92] He looks through the cracks to the tracks
[02:17.41] And the hoof beats pound in his brain
[02:22.20] And he's taught how to walk in a pack
[02:27.31] Shoot in the back
[02:29.10] With his fist in a clinch
[02:31.23] To hang and to lynch
[02:33.69] To hide 'neath the hood
[02:35.87] To kill with no pain
[02:38.05] Like a dog on a chain
[02:40.18] He ain't got no name
[02:42.35] But it ain't him to blame
[02:44.71] He's only a pawn in their game
[02:52.23] The day Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
[02:58.87] They lowered him down like a king
[03:02.89] But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
[03:07.78] Who fired the gun
[03:10.01] He'll see by his grave
[03:12.14] On the stone that remains
[03:14.43] Carved next to his name
[03:16.52] His epitaph plain
[03:18.80] Only a pawn in their game