Colony - Ver 2

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