Emerican Johnson – Remember The Rosenbergs chords

[Verse]
       A                E  F#MIt was June the 19th of 1953
        A           E      F#MAt Sing Sing on the Hudson River
     A                     E             F#MWhen Ethel and Julius took turns in that chair
          A                F#MAnd their sentences were delivered

         A                      E             F#MAnd they threw the switch after reading their crimes
A                 EJulius died in an instant
    A                         E            F#MBut Ethel, she suffered, they hit’er three times
        F#M                     EBut her heartbeat continued, persistant

[Bridge]
E

[Verse]
           DIt was the fifth one
     EThat took her
       A          ETo her fate

            DIt was the sabbath
          EWhen they died
        D                   EAt the bloody hands of the state

          A                     E          F#MIt was a long time ago when the Rosenbergs died
       A                         F#MMost folks don’t remember their names
         A                            E              F#MBut the way they were treated and the way they were tried
        A           FWas an unforgivable shame

A                      E           F#MJulius was murdered at age thirty seven
A                EEthel was just thirty five
A                                E      F#MThey had two small boys who have never forgiven
    F#M                     EThe nation for taking their lives

[Bridge]
    E

[Verse]
           DThey were orphaned
           EThey were lost
           A          EThey were injured

          DBut they grew up
          EAnd fought on
      D                        EAnd into their old age they’ve endured

     A                     E           F#MWhen Ethel stood trial she pleaded the fifth
        A                    F#MShe and Julius held off from snitchin’
    A                             E        F#MBut Ethel’s own brother turned’em in for a plea
      A                            F#MDavid Greenglass, that dirty stool pigeon

       A             E   F#MIt was March 29th of 1953
         A                       EWhen the Rosenbergs got their conviction
     A                      E      F#MFor giving the Russians the atomic bomb
      F#M                             EOr at least that’s the state’s little fiction

E              DWhat they did
                 EThey did for the workers
A                  ENot for fortune and fame

          DWhat they did
       EDidn’t matter
     D                                  EThe Russians would’ve gotten that bomb all the same

[Bridge]
A        D            A        D

[Verse]
A            E              D     ARemember the Rosenbergs

A                         E           F#MEthel and Julius were in their early twenties
          A                     F#MWhen they met in the Communist Youth Hall
     A                E                F#MAnd Ethel and Julius spent their whole lives
A                        FFighting and risking it all

         A             E       F#MFor the liberation of American workers
        A                        EWho are plundered, foresaken and fraught
    A         E       F#MAnd Ethel and Julius died in our struggle
      A                    ETheir names must not be forgot

           DThey were comrades
             EThrough and through
         A         ETil the end

          DRemember Ethel
        EAnd Julius
       E            ETheir names we must always defend


             AIt was the sabbath
          DWhen they died
           AIt was the sabbath

N.C.This song is creative commons, attribution required, non-commercial. If you make a cover I'd love to hear it!
You can find me at YouTube.com/Noncompete :)