Colony Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
I [D]Sing
the Song of the Colony
I sing the song of the colony
And your [Em]mother cries
And you ask God why
[D]Greed is the knife and
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
And your [Em]children cry
You ask God why
[G]Annie[D], she came from Dunleaven town
The TB came and killed her
family all around
Popula[Em]tion boom, eleven in two rooms
[D]Katie, she came from
downtown Dan Street
Ten in a bed, no shoes on their feet
[Em]1916 came,
they played the Patriot game
[D]Freddy came from the Ivey flats
Tenement slums and
infested with rats
Sleeping [Em]on damp straw
Trying not to break their law
[G]Thomas [D]he came from Kilmainham,
Mayo
Semi -starvation was the only life you'd
With a [Em]two -room shack,
Then jailed and let her frack.
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I sang the song of the colony
How many years
and you still were not free
And your [Em]mother cries, oh,
you ask God why
[G]Greed [D]is the knife and
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
And your [Em]children cry, oh,
you ask God [D]why[Em]
[G]I l[D]ook to the east, I look to the west
To the North and the South,
and I'm not too impressed
[Em]Time after time after
crime after crime
They raped, robbed, pillaged,
enslaved and murdered
Well, [G]Jesus [D]Christ was their God,
and they'd done it in His name
So He could take their blame,
if it's not all a game
[Em]With Bible in one hand
and the sword in the other
They came to purify my land
That my Gaelic Irish mothers [G]an d [D]fathers
and sisters and brothers
With our own ancient customs, laws,
music, art, way of life [Em]and culture
Tribal and structure, we had a civilisation
When they were still in the
Andath[G]ar nations
And we suf[D]fer with the Native American
The Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia
The African [Em]people with
their history so deep
And our children still weep
and our lives are still cheap
You came from [D]Germany, from France,
from England and from Spain
From Belgium, Holland, Portugal,
you're all the much the same
[G]You took [Em]what was not yours,
you went against your own Bible
You broke your own laws
just to outdo the rival
But did [D]you ever apologise
for the hundreds of millions of lives
You destroyed and terrorized
that you never realized
Did you nev[Em]er feel shame
for what was done
in your country's name?
And find out who's to blame
and why they were so inhumane
And still [D]they teach you in your school
about those glorious days of rule
How it's your destiny to be superior to me
But if you've any [Em]kind of mind
you'll see that all humankind
Are the children of this earth
And your hate for them
will chew you up [G]and [D]spit [Em]you out
[F#m]You'll [G]never kill a [Em]will
to be [D]free, to be free
You will [G]never kill our [Em]will
to be [D]free, to be [G]free[Em][D]
Inside [G]our minds we [Em]hold, hold the [D]key[G][Em][D]
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