Only a Pawn in Their Game

"Only a Pawn in Their Game"
Song by Bob Dylan from the album The Times They Are a-Changin'
Released January 13, 1964
Recorded August 7, 1963
Genre Folk, blues
Length 3:33
Label Columbia
Writer Bob Dylan
Producer Tom Wilson
The Times They Are a-Changin' track listing
Side one
  1. "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
  2. "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
  3. "With God on Our Side"
  4. "One Too Many Mornings"
  5. "North Country Blues"
Side two
  1. "Only a Pawn in Their Game"
  2. "Boots of Spanish Leather"
  3. "When the Ship Comes In"
  4. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
  5. "Restless Farewell"

"Only a Pawn in their Game" is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. It was released on Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' album of 1964. The song suggests that Evers' killer does not bear sole blame for his crime, but rather that he was an instrument of a racist mindset that was prevalent at that time.

Dylan sang the song at the 1963 March on Washington. Later during the event Martin Luther King gave his "I have a Dream" speech.[1]

References

  1. ^ http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=bob-dylan-protest-songs

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1960s
1962
1963
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970s
1970
"If Not for You" / "New Morning" · "Wigwam" / "Copper Kettle"
1971
"Watching the River Flow" / "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" · "George Jackson" (band version) / "George Jackson" (acoustic version)
1973
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" / "Turkey Chase" (instrumental from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) · "A Fool Such as I" / "Lily of the West"
1974
"On a Night Like This" / "You Angel You" · "Something There Is About You" / "Tough Mama" · "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (live with The Band) · "All Along the Watchtower" / "It Ain't Me Babe"
1975
"Tangled Up in Blue" / "If You See Her, Say Hello" · "Million Dollar Bash" / "Tears of Rage" · "Hurricane" (Part 1) / "Hurricane" (Part 2)
1976
1978
"Baby, Stop Crying" / "We Better Talk This Over" · "Changing of the Guards" / "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)"
1979
1980s
1980
"Slow Train" / "Do Right to Me Baby" · "Solid Rock" / "Covenant Woman" · "Saved" / "Are You Ready?"
1981
"Heart of Mine" / "Let It Be Me"  · "Dead Man, Dead Man" / "Lenny Bruce"
1983
"Union Sundown" / "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground"
1984
"Jokerman" / "Isis"
1985
"Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?)" / "We Better Talk this Over" · "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" / "Emotionally Yours"
1986
"Band of the Hand" / "Joe's Death" (Michael Rubini) · "Got My Mind Made Up" / "The Usual"
1988
"Silvio" / "Driftin' too Far from the Shore"
1989
"Everything Is Broken" / "Death is Not the End" · "Slow Train" (live with The Grateful Dead)
1990s
1990
"Political World" / "Ring Them Bells" (only in the UK and Australia) · "Most of the Time" / "Most of the Time (edit piece) · "Unbelievable" / "10,000 Men"
1991
1993
1995
"Dignity" (live on MTV Unplugged) / "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (live version) · "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" / "John Brown" (both live on MTV Unplugged)
1998
2000s
2000
"Things Have Changed" / "Make You Feel My Love" (live) / "Hurricane" / "Song to Woody" (live)
2006
2007
"Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Mark Ronson remix version) / "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (album version)
2008
"Dreamin' of You" (edit piece) / "Dreamin' of You" (album version)
2009
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" / "Down Along the Cove" (live) · "I Feel a Change Comin' On" / "I Feel a Change Comin' On" (edit piece) · "Must Be Santa" / "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
2010s
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