A Country Denied

Em C 2x Em Oh you, my lowland brother C What did we really know of each other Em C They had seen to it that we were kept apart Em Oh you, my lowland brother C When did we lose each other Em C For you were but a boy with the freedom of falcons in is heart Am When did we know that we were on the wrong side C That this war had always been just a matter of pride Am When did we notice the one with the land we loved C You'll cry within your heaven above F This is no time for amnesia Dm And what glue would hold us together now Em If not the soil of Rhodesia Em C 2x Em C Rhodesia still lies in all the slain wild beasts Em And in the wind of the cotton land still in their lungs C And their sightless eyes of a honeydew sun Em Now we're sleeping in circles C On the stones of silverstream Em Under nectar-weeping trees C Through blood-curdling screams Am This call for the great divide C It felt like an end to pride F A country dead before the seizure Dm Em A country denied - Rhodesia Em C 2x Em C Rhodesia still lies in all the slain wild beasts Em And in the wind of the cotton land still in their lungs C And their sightless eyes of a honeydew sun Em Now we're sleeping in circles C On the stones of silverstream Em Under nectar-weeping trees C Through blood-curdling screams Am This call for the great divide C It felt like an end to pride F A country dead before the seizure Dm A country denied