Chords for 1492

_ _ _ In _ 1492, _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [A] _
Columbo crossed [C#] the ocean, _ _ [G#m] _ _ [E] _
only one of many horrors _ [F#] _
_ _ [A] that would then be set in [C#] motion,
_ [G#m] _ _ [E] _ as his men cut limbs of arrow [F#]-axe _ _ [B] and burned children at the [C#] stake, _ _ [G#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ plundering a [F#] continent _ _ _ _ [E] _ for [C#] _
God's sake.
_ [G#m] _ _ _ [E] _
In [E] _ 1492, _ _ [B] _ _
[G#m] _ when King Ferdinand won [F#] Granada, _ [G#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ he passed a law _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] known as the [F#m] Edict of [F#] Alhambra.
_ [G#m] _ _
[E] _ It was as the landlords wanted, [F#] _
_ _ _ [E] as His gracious [C#] God had willed,
_ _ [E] _ that any Jew in [B] Spain had [G#m] _
three months [F#] to leave or else be [C#] killed. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _
And 800 [A],000 Europeans _ [E] _
_ [C#] _ [B] became _ [B] refugees _
[E] _ and [F#] headed east across [A]
the _ [E] Mediterranean _ Sea.
[F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
In _ 1492, _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [E] they were starving [F#m] and bereft.
_ [G#m] _ _ _ [E] _ The king said they'd be safe [F#] _ _ up [E] _
until the time they [F#] left.
[G#m] _ _
[E] _ _ But Christian Europeans _
[F#] cut _ _ them open [C#] with their swords,
_ [G#m] _ _ [E] _ _
searched their stomachs for gold, [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] and dumped [C#] them overboard.
_ _ [G#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
800 [A],000 Europeans _ [B] _
_ became _ refugees _ [G#m] _
and [F#] headed east _ across the _ Mediterranean [E] _ Sea.
[F#] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
In _ 1492, _ _ [F#] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] the sultan sent [F#] his fleet _ [E] to [B] _ go [E] rescue Sephardim _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] after the [C#] Ottoman defeat.
_ _ [G#m] _ _
[E] _ _ [E] Hundreds of thousands of people [F#] _
_ [G#m] who _ [E] knew their [C#] deaths were near,
_ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] were rescued by Muslims [B] _ [G#m] and _
[E] _ taken to [C#] Izmir.
_ [E] _
_ _ _ _ In 1492, _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [E] the sultan [C#] said that's fine.
_ [E] _ _ _
If they'd impoverish their kingdom [F#] _
just _ _ _ to enrich mine.
_ [G#m] _ _ [E] The [B] sultan also [E] passed an edict.
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _
[E] He said, [C#] welcome home.
_ [G#m] _ _
_ [E] _ Now treat your new neighbors [B] _ _ [G#m] as _ [E] if they were your [F#] own.
[G#m] And _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ 800 [A],000 Europeans _ [E] _ became _ [B] _
_ _ [G#m] refugees _ [F#] and headed east across the _ Mediterranean _
[E] _ Sea.
[F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F#] And headed east [E] across the [C#] _ Mediterranean [E] _ _ [F#] Sea. _
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In _ _ 1492. _ _ _
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