George Jackson

    "George Jackson" is a song by Bob Dylan, written in 1971, in tribute to the Black Panther leader, George Jackson, who had been shot and killed by guards at San Quentin Prison on August 21, 1971, during an attempted escape from prison. The event indirectly provoked the Attica Prison riot.
    The song was a Top 40 hit in Canada, the Netherlands, and on the US Billboard charts. The "Big Band version" was later included on the 1978 album Masterpieces, released in Japan and Australia.
    Considered within the chronology of Dylan's work, the song "George Jackson" is of special significance, because, along with the single "Watching the River Flow," it represents the only wholly new work to appear from Dylan in the years 1971-72, the period between the albums NEW MORNING (1970) and PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID  (1973).

Below: 1971, Ram's Horn Music, four pages. For Piano, Guitar and Vocal.