Ballad of Medgar Evers
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In the state of Mississippi many years ag
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A boy of 14 years got a taste of southern la
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He saw his friend a hanging and his color was his crim
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And the blood upon his jacket left a brand upon his min
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CHORUS: Too many martyrs and too many dea
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Too many lies too many empty words were sai
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Too many times for too many angry me
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Oh let it never be agai
His name was Medgar Evers and he walked his road alon
Like Emmett Till and thousands more whose names we'll never kno
They tried to burn his home and they beat him to the groun
But deep inside they both knew what it took to bring him dow
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The killer waited by his home hidden by the nigh
As Evers stepped out from his car into the rifle sigh
he slowly squeezed the trigger, the bullet left his sid
It struck the heart of every man when Evers fell and died
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And they laid him in his grave while the bugle sounded clea
laid him in his grave when the victory was nea
While we waited for the future for freedom through the land (*
The country gained a killer and the country lost a ma
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