Ballad of medgar evers lyrics

Artist  : Phil ochs 
Song : Ballad of medgar evers
 
Pre>em	    g	  d
In the state of mississippi many years ago
Am		    em
A boy of 14 years got a taste of southern law
Em		 g		  d
He saw his friend a hanging and his color was his
crime
Am					 em
And the blood upon his jacket left a brand upon
his mind

Am		d	    g
Chorus: too many martyrs and too many dead
Am		d	   g 	   (em optional)
Too many lies too many empty words were said
Am	  d		  g
Too many times for too many angry men
Am	    d	 em
Oh let it never be again

His name was medgar evers and he walked his road
alone
Like emmett till and thousands more whose names
we’ll never know
They tried to burn his home and they beat him to
the ground
But deep inside they both knew what it took to
bring him down
*chorus*

The killer waited by his home hidden by the
night
As evers stepped out from his car into the rifle
sight
He slowly squeezed the trigger, the bullet left
his side
It struck the heart of every man when evers fell
and died.
*chorus*

And they laid him in his grave while the bugle
sounded clear
Laid him in his grave when the victory was near
While we waited for the future for freedom
through the land (*)
The country gained a killer and the country lost
a man
*chorus* /pre>