Intro
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[Verses]
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The war had finally ended
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america had changed
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it had beaten back the nazis
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but the jim crow laws remain
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and there was talk of staging marches
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there was talk bout civil rights
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and there was talk about a negro playing
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baseball with the whites
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well he walked into the clubhouse
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and the card players quit playing
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and everybody stop in the middle
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of whatever they were saying
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and it was just like when the sheriff
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walks into the salon
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and he says my name is Eddie
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as he looks around the room
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this mans here to play baseball
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the manager said to the team
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we're all gonna have to live with this
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aah that's not what i mean, you know what i mean
and they all did
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it went without saying
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and the card players looked at their hand
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and went on with their playing
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well they ran him off the field
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before a game in Birmingham one night
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they made him sit up in the grand stand
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in the section marked for whites
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in his Cleveland buck-eyes uniform
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it was a new twist on the law
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the marshals kept their eye on him
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and the hecklers ate him raw
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Eddie Klepp should have run the bases in reverse
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a white man in the negro league well that had to be a first
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he could not ride the same buses
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stay in the same motels
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and he could not eat in the same restaurants
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he could't have mixed clientele
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so while Jackie played for Brooklyn
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and wore the dodger blue
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Eddie crossed the color line
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the one without a cue
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a white man in the negro leagues
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he might as well have been a Jew
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and now you mention the name of Eddie Klepp
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most everyone says who?
- 1. Chord Gitar Chuck Brodsky - The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Chuck Brodsky - The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan