This song springs from a line in the message from Peatle's Mum.
I wasn't sure at first where I was gonna go with it, but I knew it was a really cool line. However, after the fatal shooting of 17 people at Parkland High school in Florida, and the failure to protect our citizens from these attacks..... well I knew it fit - at least to me.
I am not trying to say we should get rid of guns or anything , but there is no reason why a citizen needs an AR-15. Especially people that have a background of mental illness.
What really makes me angry is that no one seems to do anything about it. the politicians pay their lip service of sorrow and make empty promises - and then time comes along and they hope we'll just move on and forget. Well it's time to not do that any more . so hence this song !
kinda reminds me of the line posed to America in the song OHIO by CSNY - about the shooting of the college kids @ Kent State in 1970
" how can you run when you know ? "
(sorry if I ranted here! 
Anyway - here is a link to the song I wrote in chordpro format in my songbook
http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/?url= … ranspose=0
or here it is in regular form
[Song]
{t: Throw Away The Swords}
[Am]Onward you pious soldiers, preaching your sacred rights
Seems your [Em]heart is numb to all the pain, and [Dm]all the tear filled [Am]nights
Newtown, Vegas, and Columbine, Sutherland , and Fort Hood
Blacks[Em]burg, Parkland, San Bernadino, said they [Dm]did all they [Am] could
[Am]Well If no one acts, then nothing changes, heartaches will come again
Like an [Em]ocean tide, they keep coming back, with the[Dm] hurt of a hurri[Am]cane
Children dying, parents crying, there's crosses where they last stood
Oh we [Em] say we're sorry, but we don't act, and it [Dm]never turns out like it [Am]should
Chorus:
[F]Listen to the gentle hearts of kindness, won't you [C] listen their calls
[F]Heed their voices, feel their pain, fix this [C]country before it[G] falls
[F]Can't stand by no more, it's time to act, no more [C]false prophet words
It's [G]time to stand up and be counted, it's [F]time to throw a[Em]way the [Am]swords.
[Am]There's no reasons at all why we cant protect, the innocent from the gun
time to[Em] break the bondage, from in the past ,[Dm] the way such things were [Am] done
Press those politicians, who make the rules, don't leave them any choice
It's up[Em] to us to make a difference, time for [Dm]us to rise up as one [Am] voice
Chorus:
Chorus:
[F]Listen to the gentle hearts of kindness, won't you [C] listen their calls
[F]Heed their voices, feel their pain, fix this [C]country before it[G] falls
[F]Can't stand by no more, it's time to act, no more [C]false prophet words
It's [G]time to stand up and be counted, it's [F]time to throw a[Em]way the [Am]swords.
it's [F]time to throw a[Em]way the [Am]swords.
it's [F]time to throw a[Em]way the [Am]swords.
[song/]
Thanks Peatle for the cool message of your Mum - must've been a special woman.
Jim
