As I Watch Minneapolis Burn

C F Are people still lynched in America – and what happens when they die G C When he begged for his mother to save him, was he resisting arrest when he cried F And how does the lynch mob roam free, when we already know who they are G C The men who murdered George Floyd, and then drove off in their police cars F To live with such savage injustice, with every new day the Earth turns G C I'm left with no reason to wonder, as I watch Minneapolis burn F Are people still lynched in America – how many just in the past weeks G C From Georgia to Minnesota, as the pandemic spikes and peaks F Did you see him pinned down for eight minutes, did you see the knee on his neck G C Did you see the police station on fire, did you smell the smoldering wreck F As the National Guard marches in, watch the wheels of history churn G C In the land of Philando Castille, as we watch Minneapolis burn F Are people still lynched in America – and do the poor still die of disease G C Are the prisons still full of debtors, do bodies still hang from the trees F Do the workers still live by the highways, still struggle to come up with rent G C Do families still get evicted, when the last of their credit is spent F Do you see all the people who just had to find out what might there be left to learn G C From the flames that rise from the Target, as we watch Minneapolis burn F Are people still lynched in America – and what happens when they die G C When he begged for his mother to save him, was he resisting arrest when he cried