George Jackson
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1. I woke up this morning,
there were tears in my bed,
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they killed a man I really loved, shot him through the head.
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C Am
Lord, Lord, they cut George Jackson down,
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D C Am
G
Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground.
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2. Sent him off to prison for
a seventy-dollar robbery,
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C
Am
they closed
the door behind him, and they threw away the key.
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D C Am
Lord, Lord, they cut George
Jackson down,
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D C Am G
Lord, Lord, they laid him in
the ground.
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3. He wouldn’t take shit from no-one, he wouldn’t
bow down or kneel,
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authorities, they hated him, because he was
just too real.
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D C Am
Lord, Lord, they cut George
Jackson down,
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D C Am G
Lord, Lord, they laid him in
the ground.
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Em
4. Prison guards they cursed
him, as they watched him from above,
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C Am
but they were frightened of his power, they were scared of his
love.
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Lord, Lord, so they cut George
Jackson down,
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D C Am G
Lord, Lord, they laid him in
the ground.
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5
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5. Sometimes I think this
whole world is one big prison yard,
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D C Am
some of us are
prisoners, the rest of us are guards.
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D C Am
Lord, Lord, they cut George
Jackson down,
G
D C Am G
Lord, Lord, they laid him in
the ground.
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- D - Em - G
+ instrumental = verse
5 ….
(Bob Dylan)