By Daniel Kelly 2020
Em C Since they shot young Medgar Evers, G D Way back in 63’ Em C To be a black man in America, G D Is to never truly be free, C G There are blessings we take for granted, G D To be respected by the law, Em C To be taken at the strength of our word, G D Instead of the clothes we wore, Em C You can’t fight fire with fire, G D Then everything just burns, Em C With the hate rising higher and higher, G D Madness is all we earn, George Floyd may not have been perfect, He had even done some time, But he was father of two daughters, and not guilty of a crime, For a bill of twenty-dollars, The shop owner thought was fake, George died on the ground, with a knee in his neck, His life wasn’t theirs to take There is silence from the White House, Except for the threat of a gun, No sign of reconciliation, Just more death when the fighting is done, I remember there was a President, It seems so long ago, Whose voice it rang out in Amazing Grace, Compassion he knew how to show,