The Dubliners – Alabama 58 (Guitar)

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In Alabama 1958

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The cost of human life is very low

                      G
A man that's black is trampled down

     Am                              Dm
Just like they were a thousand years ago

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

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Two thousand years ago a million men

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Were gathered into royal Egypt's land

                      G
Were bound together, forced to build

     Am                              Dm
Pyramids of stone in desert sand

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

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Mary's son walked through a land of woe

Dm                G    Dm
Dreaming of the world as it could be

                         G
But the good and lawful men of Rome

     Am                              Dm
Bound him like a robber to a tree

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

Dm                       C Dm
In Britain just a hundred years ago

   F                  C
The jails were full of good and hungry men

                   Dm
Diggers, fenians, many more

Am              Dm
Fought and died but rose to fight again

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

Dm                       C Dm
Last year a negro stole a dollar bill

   F                  C
The judge he said "We mustn't be severe

Am              Dm
To show there's justice here"

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

Dm                       C Dm
And so throughout the ages you have seen

  F                  C
How progress marches ever on its way

                   Dm
No rack, no wheel, no Spanish boot

Am                    Dm
For Alabama's prisoners today

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!

Dm
But these are more enlightened days

   F                  C
No room for all these savage ways

                   Dm
Leave and let them go

Am              Dm
For all are free!