Colony Chords by Damien Dempsey
- Key: E
- BPM: 122
- Capo: no capo
TEMPO FORTE
COLONY ACORDES
[Start] [Intro] E Bsus4 E A Gbm7 E ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ A Gbm7 A E ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] E I sing the song of the colony E How many years and you're still not free Gbm7 A Gbm7 Gbm Gbm7 And your mother cries ■ and you ask god why E ■ Greed is the knife and the scars run deep E How many races with much reason to weep A Gbm Gbm7 And your children cry A And you ask god why E ■ Annie she came from Dunlavin Town E The TB came and killed her family all around Gbm Population booms Gbm7 Gbm Gbm7 Eleven in two rooms E ■ Katie she came from down Townsend street E Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet Gbm Gbm7 Nineteen sixteen came Gbm They played the patriots game E ■ Freddy he came from the Iveagh flats E Tenement slums and infested with rats Gbm Gbm7 Gbm Sleeping on damp straw Gbm Trying not to break the law [Chorus] A E ■ Thomas he came from Kilmaine in Mayo A Semi starvation was the only life you'd know A In a two room shack [Inst] Gbm Gbm7 A Gbm7 E A E ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gbm A E Then jailed in Letterfrack ■ ■ [Chorus] A Gbm Gbm7 Gbm Gbm7 Gbm E I ■ look ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ to the east I look to the west [Verse] Gbm To the north and the south and I'm not too impressed Gbm Time after time Gbm After crime after crime Gbm7 They raped robbed pillaged enslaved and murdered E Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name E So he could take the blame if it's not all a game Gbm With bible in one hand and a sword in the other Gbm7 A They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers E And fathers and sisters and brothers E With our own ancient customs laws music art Gbm Gbm7 Way of life and culture Gbm7 Tribal in structure Gbm7 We had a civilisation Gbm When they were still neanderthal nations E We suffer with the Native American the Indian in Asia E Aboriginal Australia Gbm The African people with their history so deep Gbm And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap Gbm7 E You came from Germany from France from England E And from Spain E From Belgium and from Portugal E You all done much the same Gbm You took what was not yours Gbm Went against your own bible Gbm You broke your own laws Gbm Just to out do the rival E But did you ever apologize E For the hundreds and millions of lives E You destroyed and terrorised E Or have you never realized Gbm Did you never feel shame Gbm For what was done in your country's name Gbm And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane E And still they teach you in your school E About those glorious days of rule E And how it's your destiny to be E Superior to me Gbm But if you've any kind of mind Gbm7 You'll see that all human kind Gbm Are the children of this earth A E And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out [Inst] Gbm Gbm7 Gb7 B7 ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] A Gbm7 E You'll never kill our will to be free to be free A Gbm E You'll never kill our will to be free to be free A Gbm7 E You'll never kill our will to be free to be free A Gbm Inside our minds we hold hold the key [Inst] E A Gbm E A Gbm7 Gbm A ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] E A Gbm7 E A E A Gbm7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ E A Gbm7 E A Gbm E A ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Gbm E A Gbm7 E A Gbm7 E ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ A Gbm7 E A Gbm7 E ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro]