{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2733621,"song":"Remember The Rosenbergs","artist":"Emerican Johnson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11627011-remember-the-rosenbergs-chords-by-emerican-johnson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2733621?type=chord","rating":0.16046,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nIt was June the 19th of 1953[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nAt Sing Sing on the Hudson River[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nWhen Ethel and Julius took turns in that chair[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nAnd their sentences were delivered[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nAnd they threw the switch after reading their crimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nJulius died in an instant[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nBut Ethel, she suffered, they hit’er three times[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F#M[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut her heartbeat continued, persistant[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt was the fifth one[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat took her[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo her fate[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt was the sabbath[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen they died[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAt the bloody hands of the state[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nIt was a long time ago when the Rosenbergs died[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nMost folks don’t remember their names[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nBut the way they were treated and the way they were tried[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWas an unforgivable shame[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nJulius was murdered at age thirty seven[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nEthel was just thirty five[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nThey had two small boys who have never forgiven[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#M[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe nation for taking their lives[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey were orphaned[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey were lost[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey were injured[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut they grew up[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd fought on[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd into their old age they’ve endured[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nWhen Ethel stood trial she pleaded the fifth[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nShe and Julius held off from snitchin’[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nBut Ethel’s own brother turned’em in for a plea[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nDavid Greenglass, that dirty stool pigeon[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nIt was March 29th of 1953[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen the Rosenbergs got their conviction[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nFor giving the Russians the atomic bomb[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#M[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOr at least that’s the state’s little fiction[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhat they did[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey did for the workers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNot for fortune and fame[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhat they did[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nDidn’t matter[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Russians would’ve gotten that bomb all the same[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[ch]A[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nRemember the Rosenbergs[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nEthel and Julius were in their early twenties[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nWhen they met in the Communist Youth Hall[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nAnd Ethel and Julius spent their whole lives[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFighting and risking it all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nFor the liberation of American workers[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWho are plundered, foresaken and fraught[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]F#M[/ch]\r\nAnd Ethel and Julius died in our struggle[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTheir names must not be forgot[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey were comrades[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThrough and through[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTil the end[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRemember Ethel[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd Julius[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTheir names we must always defend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was the sabbath[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen they died[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was the sabbath[/tab]\r\n\r\nN.C.\r","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\nE\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n    E\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\nA        D            A        D\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nN.C.","chords":["A","E","F#M","D","F","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}