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"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
- "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
- "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
- "With God on Our Side"
- "One Too Many Mornings"
- "North Country Blues"
- Side two
- "Only a Pawn in Their Game"
- "Boots of Spanish Leather"
- "When the Ship Comes In"
- "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
- "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]
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Songs Side 1: The Times They Are a-Changin' · Ballad of Hollis Brown · With God on Our Side · One Too Many Mornings · North Country Blues
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1978Never Ending Tour Films Writings Tarantula · Writings and Drawings · Lyrics: 1962–1985 · Drawn Blank · Chronicles: Volume One · Lyrics: 1962–2001 · The Definitive Bob Dylan SongbookBooks about Dylan The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia · Bob Dylan, Performing Artist · Invisible Republic · The Cambridge Companion to Bob DylanRelated articles Albums · American folk music revival · Awards · Bob Dylan bootleg recordings · List of Basement Tapes songs · The Bootleg Series · Discography · List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs · Related topics · Songs recorded by Bob Dylan · Songs written by Bob Dylan · Great White Wonder · The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams · The Masked Marauders · Theme Time Radio Hour · The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour · Traveling WilburysBob Dylan singles discography 1960s 1970s 1970 "Wigwam" / "Copper Kettle"1971 "Watching the River Flow" / "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" · "If Not For You" / "New Morning" · "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 "Mozambique" / "Oh Sister" · "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" (live) / "Rita May"1978 "Baby, Stop Crying" / "We Better Talk This Over" · "Changing of the Guards" / "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)"1979 "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" / "When You Gonna Wake Up?" · "Gotta Serve Somebody" / "Trouble in Mind"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 "Series of Dreams" / "Seven Curses" · "Blind Willie McTell" / "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (from The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3) · "Step it Up and Go" — (no b-side)1993 "My Back Pages" (with Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison) — (no b-side)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 "Not Dark Yet" / "Tombstone Blues" (live) / "Ballad of a Thin Man" (live) / "Boots of Spanish Leather" (live) · "Love Sick" / "Tombstone Blues" (live)2000s 2000 "Things Have Changed" / "Make You Feel My Love" (live) / "Hurricane" / "Song to Woody" (live)2006 "Someday Baby" / "Someday Baby" (edit piece) · "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Not Dark Yet" / "High Water (for Charley Patton)"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 2010 "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (demo version) / "Like a Rolling Stone"Categories:- 1964 songs
- Bob Dylan songs
- Songs written by Bob Dylan
- Songs produced by Tom Wilson
- Songs based on actual events
- Songs in memory of deceased persons
- 1960s song stubs
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