Frank
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Frank was raised in Brooklyn From where he learned his skills He moved down to Atlanta Running a factory for pencils He was always on the outside No matter what he said or did For his wealth he couldn't hide Resentment boiled up under the lid He gave work to the poor No matter what their age Mary she worked on the shop floor For a pittance of a wage She was only thirteen Her family needed her pay She worked on the machines For one dollar twenty a day One day they found her dead In the basement where she worked Jim Conley the janitor said I only found her and I raised the alert Although it all pointed to him Jim was not the one they named The jury knew he'd lied to save his skin It was Frank the Jew that they blamed Though they had very little proof They said that Frank had done the deed The crowds jubilation hit the roof When Frank's fate was guaranteed They sentenced him to the rope But later changed it to life Frank thought he had some hope But the crowd were sharpening their knives One day the lynch mob came And snatched Frank out of jail They put Frank into chains And drove on the backwoods trial Twenty eight men in the mob A Judge, Governors, Sheriffs and Mayors Frank was the only one that sobbed For Frank no one said prayers On an old oak tree Frank was hung As the mob posed for pictures In the Georgia wind he swung Surrounded by the racist victors They sold postcards of the hanging For twenty five cents in the store And pieces of the shirt he was wearing And bits of the rope but they wanted more Long after Frank had gone And they'd put a lid on their hate They granted Frank a pardon Although it was way too late Leo Frank was killed for being a Jew From Dreyfus to Frank to the six million dead Yes killed for being different than you When will they stop hating and learn to love instead? And learn to love instead? When will they stop hating and learn to love instead?
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