Talking birmingham jam (talking birmingham jail) Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D][G][D][A][D]
Walking
down to [G]Birmingham,
[D]way down south [A]in Dixieland,
I [D]thought that I would [G]stop a while,
[D]take a vaca[A]tion, [D]southern style,
got some [G]southern [D]hospitality,
[A]down there in a southern
hos[D]pital.[D]
Oh, all the signs said, welcome in
Signed by Governor [A]Wal
lace and Rin Tin Tin
They said, [D]come along and
[G]watch the fights
[D]While we feed our dogs on civil rights
Now, don't get [G]us wrong
[D]Some [A]of our[D] best Negroes
are friends
[D]Well, I've seen travel
in many ways
I've traveled in cars [A]and old [D]sub[A]ways
But [D]in Birmingham some people chose to
fly down the street from a fire hole
Doing some [G]hard traveling
[D]from hydrants of plenty
Well a pack of dogs was standing by,
I walked up to them and I [A]said,
Hi I [D]asked one dog what they [G]all were [D]doing,
he walked up to me and started chewing
I said, [G]hold it, I'm from the [D]ASPCA,
[A]Society for Prevention of
[D]Cruelty to Agitators.
And I said, there must
be some men around,
there can[A]'t be [D]only dogs in [A]town.
They [D]said, sure we have
old Bull Connor,
there he goes a -walkin' yonder.
Growin' [G]some raw meat to [D]the mayor,
[A]
feedin' bones to the city coun[D]cil.
You know Governor Wallace
doesn't mean no harm
Can't you see he's got a lot of [A]charm
He's [D]protectin' us whites,
both [G]rich and [D]poor
[A]Standin' in the [D]schoolhouse door
Crackin' [G]jokes,
talkin' [D]to Huntley Brinkley
Servin' [A]jury duty, gettin' re [D]-elected
So I asked them why they spent their time
with [A]se gregation on their mind
[D]They said, you don't like
to live this way,
get out of here
Go back to the U .S .A.
Live with all [G]them Russian
[D]New [A]York fol[D]k singers
Some say they've passed
their darkest [G]hour
[A]Those mod[D]erates are back in power
[A]Oh, [D]they listen close with open ears,
they'll help us [D]out in a
couple of hundred years
But don't push [G]them, whatever you do,
[A]or else you get those extremist[D]s back in
You see, Alabama is a sovereign state with
sovereign dogs and sover[D]eign hate
They stand for the Bible,
for the Constitution,
they stand against
communist re[D]volution
They say [G]it's pinkos [D]like [A]you
that freed [D]the slaves,
and they're right.