Intro: E
[A] [F#m] [E]
[A]Ch[F#m]orus[E]:
[E]I Sing the song of the colony,
How many years and your still not free,
[F#m]And your mother cries,Oh and you ask God why.
[E]Greed is the knife, and the scars run deep,
How many races with much reason to weep,
[F#m]And your children cry, Oh and you ask God why.
Verse:
[E]Annie, she came from Dunlaven town,
The TB came, and killed her family all around,
[F#m]Population boomed, livin' in two rooms.
[E]Katie she came from down Townsend street,
Ten in her bed, and no shoes on their feet,
[F#m]1916 came, they played the patriots game.
[E]Freddy, he came form the Iveagh flats,
Tenement slums and infested with rats,
[F#m]Sleepin on damp straw, tryin not to break the law.
[E]Thomas he came from Kilmainah Mayo,
Semi starvation was the only life you know,
[F#m]In a two room shack, then jailed in Letterfrack.
[A] [F#m] [E]
[A]Ch[F#m]orus[E]:
[E]I sing the song of the colony,
How many years and your still not free,
[F#m]And your mother cries, oh and you ask God why.
[E]Greed is the knife, and the scars run deep,
How many races with much reason to weep,
[F#m]And your children cry, oh and you ask God why.
Verse:
[E]I look to the east, I look to the west,
To the north and the south,
And im not too impresed.
[F#m]Time after time after crime after crime,
They rape, rob, pilage, enslaved, and murdered,
[E]Jesus Christ was their God,
And they done it in his name,
So he could take the blame if its not all a game,
[F#m]With Bible in one hand,and a sword in the other,
They came to purify my land, E
And my Gaelic Irish mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers
With our own anchient customs, laws, music, art,
[F#m]Way of life and culture
Tribal in structure, we had a civilisation,
When they were still neanderthal nations
[E]We suffer with the Native American,
The Indian in Asia,
Aboriginal Australia,
[F#m]The African people with their history so deep,
And our children still weep,
And our lives are still cheap,
[E]They came from Germany and France, from England and from Spain,
From Belgium and from Portugal,
You all done much the same,
[F#m]You took what was not yours,
Went against your own Bible,
You broke your own laws, just to outdo the rival
[E]But did you ever apologise,
For the hundreds of millions of lives,
Yous destroyed and terrorised, or have you never realised
[F#m]Did you never feel shame for what was done in your countrys name,
And find out whos to blame, and why it was so in-humane.
[E]And still they teach you in your school,
About those glorious days of rule,
And how its your destiny to be, superior to me,
[F#m]But if you've any kind of mind,
You'll see that all human kind
Are the children of this earth,
[E]An[F#m]d your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out!
[A]You'll never kill our will t[F#m]o be free, to [E]be free,
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,
[A]InSide our minds, we all hold th[F#m]e key![E]
A F#m E Till outro
[A] [F#m] [E]
[A]Ch[F#m]orus[E]:
[E]I Sing the song of the colony,
How many years and your still not free,
[F#m]And your mother cries,Oh and you ask God why.
[E]Greed is the knife, and the scars run deep,
How many races with much reason to weep,
[F#m]And your children cry, Oh and you ask God why.
Verse:
[E]Annie, she came from Dunlaven town,
The TB came, and killed her family all around,
[F#m]Population boomed, livin' in two rooms.
[E]Katie she came from down Townsend street,
Ten in her bed, and no shoes on their feet,
[F#m]1916 came, they played the patriots game.
[E]Freddy, he came form the Iveagh flats,
Tenement slums and infested with rats,
[F#m]Sleepin on damp straw, tryin not to break the law.
[E]Thomas he came from Kilmainah Mayo,
Semi starvation was the only life you know,
[F#m]In a two room shack, then jailed in Letterfrack.
[A] [F#m] [E]
[A]Ch[F#m]orus[E]:
[E]I sing the song of the colony,
How many years and your still not free,
[F#m]And your mother cries, oh and you ask God why.
[E]Greed is the knife, and the scars run deep,
How many races with much reason to weep,
[F#m]And your children cry, oh and you ask God why.
Verse:
[E]I look to the east, I look to the west,
To the north and the south,
And im not too impresed.
[F#m]Time after time after crime after crime,
They rape, rob, pilage, enslaved, and murdered,
[E]Jesus Christ was their God,
And they done it in his name,
So he could take the blame if its not all a game,
[F#m]With Bible in one hand,and a sword in the other,
They came to purify my land, E
And my Gaelic Irish mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers
With our own anchient customs, laws, music, art,
[F#m]Way of life and culture
Tribal in structure, we had a civilisation,
When they were still neanderthal nations
[E]We suffer with the Native American,
The Indian in Asia,
Aboriginal Australia,
[F#m]The African people with their history so deep,
And our children still weep,
And our lives are still cheap,
[E]They came from Germany and France, from England and from Spain,
From Belgium and from Portugal,
You all done much the same,
[F#m]You took what was not yours,
Went against your own Bible,
You broke your own laws, just to outdo the rival
[E]But did you ever apologise,
For the hundreds of millions of lives,
Yous destroyed and terrorised, or have you never realised
[F#m]Did you never feel shame for what was done in your countrys name,
And find out whos to blame, and why it was so in-humane.
[E]And still they teach you in your school,
About those glorious days of rule,
And how its your destiny to be, superior to me,
[F#m]But if you've any kind of mind,
You'll see that all human kind
Are the children of this earth,
[E]An[F#m]d your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out!
[A]You'll never kill our will t[F#m]o be free, to [E]be free,
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,
[A]InSide our minds, we all hold th[F#m]e key![E]
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