The Ballad Of Jimmy Wilson Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
In Alabama, [Am]1958,
the cost of human life [D]is very [Am]low.
A man that's black is trampled down
just like men were [G]a thousand [Am]years ago.
But these are more enlightened days
Through [C]old men [Am]an d savage ways
[D]we left [Am]long ago
Now everyone may walk his road in peace
For [E]all are [Am]free[E][Am]
Five thousand years ago a million men
Were gathered [F]in to [Am]roy
al Egypt's hands
Were bound together, forced to build
Pyramids of stone in desert sands
But these are more enlightened days,
cruel men and savage ways,
[D]we [Am]left long ago.
Now every man may walk his road in peace,
for all [E]are [Am]free.[E][Am]
Mary's son walked through
a [E]land of [Am]woe,
dreaming of the world as it could be.
The good and lawful men of Rome
nailed him
like a rubber to the tree.
But these are more enlightened days,
cruel men and savage ways,
[D]we left [Am]long ago
Now every man may walk his road in peace
for all [E]are [Am]free
In Britain just a hundred years ago,
the jails were full of [D]poor and
[Am]hungry men
Diggus, Chartus,
many more fought and died
and rose to fight again
These are more enlightened days,
cruel men and savage ways
[D]We [Am]left long ago
Now every [D]man may [Am]walk his road in peace
For all [E]are [Am]free[E]
[Am]Last year a Negro [E]stole a dollar [Am]bill
The judge, said,
we mustn't be severe
Instead of death we'll give him life
Impris[G]onment [Em]to show
[E]there's justice [Am]here
These are more enlightened days,
cruel [C]men and [Am]savage ways
[D]we [Am]left long ago.
Now [E]every [D]man may walk his road in [Am]peace
for all [E]are [Am]free.[E]
[Am]And so throughout the
ages we have seen
how progress marches ever on [Am]its way.
No rack, no wheel, no Spanish [Am]boot
for Alabama's prisoners today.
These are more enlightened days,
cruel men and savage ways
[D]we left [Am]long ago.
Now every [D]man may walk his road in [Am]peace
for all [E]are [Am]free.
The plague still runs
throughout the [Am]world today.
Johannesburg to Notting Hill and [Am]back.
A plague of ignorance and hate.
Men walk in fear
because their skin is [Am]black.
So in these more enlightened days,
no room for all these savage ways,
[D]leave them, let them go.
Now every man should
walk his road in peace,
let men be [Am]free.