Bob Dylan《Only A Pawn In Their Game》
《Only A Pawn In Their Game》
演唱：Bob Dylan
A bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a mans brain
But he can't be blamed
Hes only a pawn in their game
A south politician preaches to the poor white man
You got more than the blacks don't complain
You're better than them
You been born with white skin they explain
And the negros name
Is used it is plain
For the politicians gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
Hes only a pawn in their game
The deputy sheriffs the soldiers the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white mans used
In the hands of them all like a tool
Hes taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
Bout the shape that hes in
But it ain't him to blame
Hes only a pawn in their game
From the poverty shacks
He looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
And hes taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
Hes only a pawn in their game
Today medgar evers was buried
From the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
Hell see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game
1964年马丁路德金发表了震撼世界的演讲：《我有一个梦想(I have a dream)》，Mahalia Jackson、Marian Anderson、Joan Baez、Peter,Paul&Mary、Bob Dylan...在马丁路德金演讲的同一个舞台歌唱熟悉自己的“抗议与梦想之歌”。
当年22岁的Bob Dylan在这次集会活动中唱了一首《Only A Pawn In Their Game》，中文译为“他们只是游戏中的一颗棋子”，主要讲述黑人民权运动领袖Medgar Evers被刺杀的事件，表达了对美国民权运动中非裔美国人的支持。
歌词将“杀戮”和其他种族暴力归咎于富有的白人政客与美国当局，指责他们操纵贫穷的白人，将愤怒和仇恨指向黑人。除此之外，鲍勃迪伦更是在歌中暗示，杀害Medgar Evers的凶手不值得在历史中被记住，不像他所杀害的那个人，因为他“只是他们游戏中的一个棋子”！