Chords for J. B. Lenoir - Shot on James Meredith - 1966 -

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[Gb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _
[Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] June the 6th, [Bb] 1966, _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [G] the Shanty Meadow's down just like a dove. _
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[C] June the 6th, _ 1966, _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ the [E]
Shanty [G] Meadow's _ down just like a dove. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
Mr.
President, I wonder what all you gonna do now.
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _
[E] [N] I don't believe you gonna do nothing [G] at all.
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[G] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] He was marching through Mississippi. _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ Lead my people what he [G] thought was right. _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ _
He [Bb] was [C] marching through Mississippi.
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Lead [Eb] my people what [G] he thought was right.
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[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The last I heard of my boy [D] Jay Mernice, [G] _ [Gb] _ _ _ [G] _ [Eb] _ [E] _
_ some evil [A] man
[G] tried to take his life.
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[G] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ [Gb] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] I was looking like Dick Gravy this morning.
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[C] _ _ _ He said, I'm here to take a plane.
[G] _ _ _
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I was [Fm] looking like Dick Gravy [C] this morning.
_ _ _ [G] _ [Gm] _ He said, I'm here to _ take a plane.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
The newspaper [Bb] men asking, what do you think you're gonna [G] prove?
[Bb] _
_ [Gb] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ [E] He said, I'm gonna [G] lead the people just like Jay Mernice do.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
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