Black Flag Chords by Iced Earth

[Eb] _ _ [Ebm] _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[F] _ [Ebm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [B] _ _ [Db] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
[Ab] _ [Ebm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [B] _ _ [Db] _
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[Ebm] A storm is raging on the open [Eb] sea.
We are the [F] outcasts, no [Ebm] friends in softest [Db] tree.
_ It's [B] time, _ unleash [Eb] me!
Embracing chaos, the only _ creed.
Scourge of nations, [Bbm] the [Ebm] empire's enemies.
[Db] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
With a stroke of a pen, a [B] treaty is signed.
[Db] Now deemed as [Eb] our loss, once employed by the crowd.
With [B] letters of martyrs [Db] being a sanctioned [Eb] plunder.
No longer the fool, but [B] pausing their game.
[Db] Economic [Eb] warfare, do they really believe they control [B] us?
Our greatest [Db] strength is [Bb] in depth [B] and love.
We [Db] live our days with [Ebm] barrels of rum,
black powder, [Db] and the flash [Gb] of the [Ab] _
[Ebm] _ blaze.
[F] _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ [F] _ [B] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Eb] You will fire the guns [B] upon my command.
[Db] Unleash full [Eb] proscythe, destroying the mass.
The [B] raping, the sales, the [Db] shrapnel, [Eb] devastating.
Boarding the fleet, with [B] luck in hand, one [Db] shot, grenades are [Eb] flying.
Running this brew with my [B] cutlets of blood and the [Db] shields are slashing and [B] screaming.
_ [Db] We live our days [Ebm] with barrels of rum,
black powder, [Db] and the flash [Gb] of the [Ab]
[Ebm] blaze.
Stories foretold of silver and gold and the empire's greed.
[Ebm] We'll cut down the trees, we'll straight up the [B] king, we'll go to the sea.
[Ab]
[Ebm] The freest of men, vital to others, and all in our treaties are owed.
[Ebm] We spit on our hands, we [Ab] slip our [B] flag and begin.
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[Bb] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Bb] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] We live [Ebm] our _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ days [B] with barrels of rum,
black [Db] powder, and the flash [Gb] of the [Ab]
[Ebm] blaze.
Stories foretold of silver and gold and the empire's greed.
[Ab]
[Ebm] We'll cut down the trees, we'll straight [F] up the king, [B] we'll go to the sea.
[Ab]
[Ebm] The freest of men, vital to others, and all in our treaties are owed.
[Ebm] We spit on our [F] hands, we slip our flag [B] and begin to slit [Ab] throats.
[Ebm] Stories foretold of silver and gold and the empire's greed.
[Ab]
[Ebm] We'll cut down the trees, we'll straight [Ab] up the king, [B] we'll go to the sea.
[Ab]
[Ebm] The freest of men, vital to others, and all in our treaties are [Ab] owed.
[Ebm] We spit on our hands, we [Ab] slip our [B] flag and begin to slit [Ab] throats.
[Ebm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _