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The day Medgar Evers
was buried from the bullet he caught
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And I encouraged him to go with them
and he did, as part of an education.
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The Civil Rights Movement
was in full swing...
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and there was a big field
outside Greenwood...
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with several hundred people.
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I heard some speechifying there
that I'll never forget in all my life.
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And I remember Bob singing a song
which really caused people to think.
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He's Only a Pawn in The Game.
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He was singing about the man
who killed Medgar Evers.
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In other words,
don't just think of this one man...
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who did this murder,
but think of the whole situation.
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To be on the side of people
who are struggling for something...
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doesn't necessarily mean
you are being political.
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Oh, my name it ain't nothin'
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My age it means less
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The country I come from
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Is called the Midwest
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I was taught and brought up there
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The laws to abide
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And that the land that I live in
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Has God on its side
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I would say that Bob was gifted,
and it was flowering.
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He had a great desire to change the world.
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We even talked about it.
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We thought that segregation
wasn't gonna last...
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and that we were gonna have
something to do with ending it.
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We really believed
we were gonna have a part...
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as songwriters in changing the world.
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I had first laid eyes on Bob in Gerde's Folk
City.
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I had been told about him.
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"This guy's a genius
and he writes these incredible songs...
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"and he admires Woody Guthrie,"
and all this stuff.