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