The Murder of George Floyd

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’Twas out in Minnesota not so long ago

When a father from Houston town was parted from his soul

This man who hatefully was held down and destroyed

The color of his skin was black and his name was George Floyd

He'd lost his job quite recently by government decree

Then he tried to buy some cigarettes a single lousy pack

The owner called him counterfeit and convicted him like that

Po' George he said I cannot breathe but the cops did not heed that

They pulled him from the police car and knelt upon his neck

While people gathered all around to ease his screams of pain

The reason that they killed him there, and I’m sure it ain’t no lie

Was he was born a black-skinned boy, so he was born to die

And then to stop the United States a yelling for a trial

The cops who killed him lost their jobs by government decree

Oh murder in the third degree as though it were just one crime

And not a form of slavery they'd thought no one would mind

I heard the first reports of this but I could not bear to see

The three other men proudly walkin’ down the courthouse stairs

For no jury had convicted them and so innocent they went free

While Floyd is still most surely dead on video for all to see

If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust

Your eyes are filled with dead men’s clay, your mind is filled with dust

Your arms and legs are in shackles and chains, and your blood it must cease to flow

For you would let this human race fall down so God-awful low

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man

That this kind of thing still lives today like a ghost upon this land

But if all of us who love enough could give all we could give

We just could make this poor dyin' world a better place to live