The Killing of George Floyd

Come stand with me friends and I’ll sing you a song

For a man who's committed no wrong

His name is George Floyd and his story is true

He was murdered in cold blood

No mercy he knew

 

He’d moved to the city to try to find work

To make a new start out of all that he’d learnt

Arrested for buying a packet of smokes

The cops pushed him down with a knee to the throat

And he was a peaceful man

And he turned his life around

And George Floyd was killed on the ground

While the white cops all stood around

They watched him die …. without a sound

Derek Chauvin bent to kneel

He put his knee on George Floyd’s throat

And when he cried out ‘I can’t breathe’

And begged the man to let him go

He held it there 8 minutes long

Even after his pulse had gone

Even when he'd heard him plead for his life

No officer of the peace

This murderer out on the streets

And he was a peaceful man

And he turned his life around

And George Floyd was killed on the ground

While the white cops all stood around

They watched him die … without a sound

So where was the democracy?

Where was the law?

There was no humanity there left at all

The night that the police killed George Floyd

A most brutal murder that ever was told

But for the weight of the white man upon George Floyd’s neck

Draining his life as he tried to protest

Arrested over a phoney dollar bill

George Floyd should be living still

Now stand up people wherever you are

From Minneapolis to Atlanta, Paris, London and Los Angeles

And bring your voices out onto the streets

For the brutal murder of another black life

We’ll no longer be silent on these racist crimes

It's time to get angry it's time to make right

For the killing of George Floyd for justice we’ll fight

And he was a peaceful man and he turned his life around

And George Floyd was killed on the ground

While the white cops all stood around

They watched him die … without a sound.