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There was Johnny Cash.
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And then you had O.J. Abbott
singing some of the ballads he knew...
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as a young man working
in the lumber camps.
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Right side by side.
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There were 15,000 people,
and that seemed to me just immense.
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Everyone was there who played folk music.
Old and new.
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Sort of younger people, too.
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We kind of bonded in a way,
music-wise, you know...
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what we were singing
and what he was writing.
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A bullet from the back of a bush
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Took Medgar Evers's blood
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A finger fired the trigger to his name
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A handle hid out in the dark
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The hand set the spark
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Two eyes took the aim
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Behind a man's brain
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But he can't be blamed
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He's only a pawn in their game
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I was the only singer there probably
singing the songs that he'd written.
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And most likely, two years earlier to that...
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I wouldn't have been able
to get into Newport.
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You got more than the blacks,
don't complain
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You're better than them
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You been born with white skin, they explain
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It was quite a sensation.
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He was singing a lot of,
what they called then, protest songs.