1741 (The Battle of Cartagena)

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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Em]Sailing the raging seas
[C]To distant lands unknown
[G]Porto Bello fell in a day
[D]Now Britannia rules the waves
[Em]Thirty thousand men at arms
Red [C]Ensign in the sky
To [G]Cartagena we set sail
With [D]blood and plunder we'll [Em]pre
[G]vail[D][Em][G][D]
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Twice struck, and twice we've failed
But [C]third time works a charm
[G]The greatest fleet the world has seen
To [D]fight the War of Jenkins' Ear
[Em]Waters lash across the bow
Through [C]Caribbean Seas
The [G]year is 1741
The fi[D]nal battle has [G]begun[Am][G][A]
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[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 2]
The skies are [Am]burning with [Em]thunder[Am]
The [Em]seas are [C]ablaze with [D]flame
[Em]Set the course for Carta[Am]gena[Em]
[Am]The sands of time [C]will re
[D]member our [Em]names
The skies are [Am]burning with [Em]thunder[Am]
The [Em]seas [C]are ablaze with [D]flame[Em]
Set the course [Am]for Cartagen[Em] a
[C]History is [D]written [Em]today
Across the sea- lashed deck
Our [C]captain gives a cry
[G]"Cartagena lies ahead
[D]The Spanish foe will soon
be [Em]dead!"
Portents of coming doom
En[C]gulf the battle line

[Verse 3]
[G]High above, the heavens sigh
A [D]red light burning [B]in the [Bm]sky[C][Cm][Bbm][B]
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An omen of [Am]dread[C]
[B]Which no man can den[C]y[Bb][Bm]
[B]The legends hold [Bm]true[Am][C]
[B]We must turn back or die[C]
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[Bm]Superstiti[B]ous fool[Bm]s[Am][C][Bm]
[B]Be gone from my [C]sight[Bb]
[B]Blast the trumpets of war[Am][C]
[Bm]And pr[B]epare for the figh[C]t[D][Em][G][D][Em]
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The skies are burn[Am]ing with t[Em]hunder
[Am]The [Em]seas are ablaze [C]with f[D]lame[Em]
Set the course for [Am]Carta[Em]gena
[Am]The sands of [C]time will
remem[D]ber our [Em]names
The skies are burn[Am]ing with t[Em]hunder
[Am]The [Em]seas are ablaze [C]with f[D]lame[Em]
Set the course for [Am]Carta[Em]gena
His[C]tory is [D]written

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[Em]today[C][Em][C][C#m][Em]
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[C#m]Hard to starboard
Man the cannons
And on my command,
unleash [B]hell![Am][B][Am]
[B]FIRE! [Bm]Show[D] them your steel
[A]Bring them [Am]to death on t[A]he b[F#]attlefield
[B]Ride on the wind,
[Bm]and [B]conq[D]uer the foe[A]
[D]The le[A]gends be [Am]damned, to our [A]death[F#] s we will ago[Em][Am]
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The skies are [Am]burning with [Em]thunder[Am]
The [Em]seas are [C]ablaze with [D]flame[Em]
Set the course for [Am]Carta[Em]gena
[Am]The sands of time will[C] re
[D]member [Em]our names
The skies are [Am]burning [Em]with thunder
[Am]The seas are[Em] abl[C]aze with fl[D]ame
[Em]Set the course for Carta[Am]gena[Em]
[C]History is writ[D]ten [Em]today
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