[00:00.000] 作词 : Bob Dylan [00:00.520] 作曲 : Bob Dylan [00:01.40]A bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers blood [00:08.75]A finger fired the trigger to his name [00:13.56]A handle hid out in the dark [00:17.90]A hand set the spark [00:20.08]Two eyes took the aim [00:23.39]Behind a mans brain [00:26.76]But he cant be blamed [00:29.81]Hes only a pawn in their game [00:36.67]A south politician preaches to the poor white man [00:43.48]You got more than the blacks dont complain [00:47.60]Youre better than them [00:50.39]You been born with white skin they explain [00:54.84]And the negros name [00:58.32]Is used it is plain [01:01.57]For the politicians gain [01:04.70]As he rises to fame [01:07.07]And the poor white remains [01:09.18]On the caboose of the train [01:11.56]But it aint him to blame [01:13.73]Hes only a pawn in their game [01:23.37]The deputy sheriffs the soldiers the governors get paid [01:30.06]And the marshals and cops get the same [01:35.43]But the poor white mans used [01:39.12]In the hands of them all like a tool [01:43.31]Hes taught in his school [01:46.18]From the start by the rule [01:48.71]That the laws are with him [01:50.96]To protect his white skin [01:53.15]To keep up his hate [01:55.07]So he never thinks straight [01:57.14]Bout the shape that hes in [01:59.39]But it aint him to blame [02:01.32]Hes only a pawn in their game [02:10.15]From the poverty shacks [02:12.46]He looks from the cracks to the tracks [02:17.33]And the hoof beats pound in his brain [02:21.37]And hes taught how to walk in a pack [02:25.43]Shoot in the back [02:27.00]With his fist in a clinch [02:30.06]To hang and to lynch [02:32.93]To hide neath the hood [02:35.05]To kill with no pain [02:37.17]Like a dog on a chain [02:39.22]He aint got no name [02:41.34]But it aint him to blame [02:43.40]Hes only a pawn in their game [02:52.06]Today medgar evers was buried [02:54.61]From the bullet he caught [02:58.90]They lowered him down as a king [03:04.53]But when the shadowy sun sets on the one [03:09.40]That fired the gun [03:11.40]Hell see by his grave [03:14.34]On the stone that remains [03:16.78]Carved next to his name [03:18.84]His epitaph plain: [03:21.39]Only a pawn in their game