Intro
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[Verses]
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The war had finally ended
F#
america had changed
G#m
it had beaten back the nazis
E
but the jim crow laws remain
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and there was talk of staging marches
F#
there was talk bout civil rights
G#m
and there was talk about a negro playing
E
baseball with the whites
B
well he walked into the clubhouse
F#
and the card players quit playing
G#m
and everybody stop in the middle
E
of whatever they were saying
B
and it was just like when the sheriff
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walks into the salon
G#m
and he says my name is Eddie
E
as he looks around the room
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this mans here to play baseball
F#
the manager said to the team
G#m
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
F#
it went without saying
G#m
and the card players looked at their hand
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and went on with their playing
B
well they ran him off the field
F#
before a game in Birmingham one night
G#m
they made him sit up in the grand stand
E
in the section marked for whites
B
in his Cleveland buck-eyes uniform
F#
it was a new twist on the law
G#m
the marshals kept their eye on him
E
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
G#m
and he could not eat in the same restaurants
E
he could't have mixed clientele
B
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so while Jackie played for Brooklyn
F#
and wore the dodger blue
G#m
Eddie crossed the color line
E
the one without a cue
B
a white man in the negro leagues
F#
he might as well have been a Jew
G#m
and now you mention the name of Eddie Klepp
E
most everyone says who?
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