《Only A Pawn In Their Game》是Bob Dylan演唱的歌曲，由Bob Dylan作詞作曲，收錄於《Joker Games》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Only A Pawn In Their Game
- 所屬專輯：Joker Games
- 歌曲原唱：Bob Dylan
- 填詞：Bob Dylan
- 譜曲：Bob Dylan
歌曲歌詞
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 mans brain
But he can't be blamed
Hes 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 negros name
Is used it is plain
For the politicians gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
Hes 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 mans used
In the hands of them all like a tool
Hes 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 hes in
But it ain't him to blame
Hes 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 hes 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
Hes 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
Hell see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game
