Colony Chords by Damien Dempsey

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_ _ _ I sing the song of the colony, how many years and you're still not free, [F#m] and your mother _ cries, _ and you ask God _ why.
_ [E] _ Greed is the knife and the scars run deep, how many races with much reason to [F#m] weep, and your children _ cry, and you ask God why. _ _
[E] _ Annie, she came from Dunleaven town, the TB came and killed her family all around, [F#m] population _ boom, _ _ eleven in two rooms.
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Katie, she came from downtown Dent Street, ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet, [F#m]
1916 _ came, _ they played the Patriot _ game.
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Freddie, came from the I-Bay flats, _ tenement slums and infested with [F#m] rats, sleeping on damp straw, _ trying not to break their law.
_ _ _ Tom, the C came from Kilmainham, Mayo, semi starvation was the only life you'd [C#m] know, in a two room shack, _ _ then jailed and let her frat.
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_ _ _ _ sing the song of the colony, how many years and you're still not free, [F#m] and your mother _ cries, and _ you ask [A] God _ why.
[E] _ _ Greed is the knife and the scars run deep, how many races with much reason to [F#m] weep, and your children cry, and you ask God [F#] _
why.
[E] I look to the east, I look to the west, to the north and the south and I'm not too impressed.
[F#m] Time after time after crime after crime, they raped, robbed, [A] pillaged, enslaved and murdered.
Well Jesus [E] Christ was their God and they done it in his name, so he could take the blame if it's not all a game.
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With Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, they came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers [E] and fathers and sisters and brothers.
With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art, way of [C#m] life and culture, tribal and structure, we had a civilization when they were still in the Andhra nations.
[E] And we suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia, the [F#] Afrikaan people with their history so deep, [F#m] and our children still weep and our lives are still cheap.
[E] You came from Germany, from France, from England and from Spain, from Belgium, Holland, Portugal, you're all the much the [F#] same.
You took what was [F#m] not yours, you went against your own Bible, you broke your own laws just to outdo the rival.
But [E] did you ever apologize for the hundreds of millions of lives you destroyed and terrorized that you never realized?
Did [F#m] you never 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 [E] they teach you in your school about those glorious days of rule, how it's your destiny to be superior to [B] me.
But if you [F#] have any [F#m] kind of mind, you'll see that all humankind are the children of this earth and your hate for them will chew you up [E] and spit you out.
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_ _ [A] You'll never kill [F#m] a will [E] to be free, to be free.
_ _ [A] Inside our minds [F#m] we hold, [E] hold the key. _
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