Chords for Damien Dempsey - Colony (The Late Late Show)

Tempo:
118.9 bpm
Chords used:

E

A

F#m

F#

Em

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Damien Dempsey - Colony (The Late Late Show) chords
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[E] [A]
[B] [Em] [E]
[A]
[F#m] [E]
I sing the song of the colony, how many years and you're still were not free, and [F#m] your mother cried, 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.
[A]
[F#m] [E]
[A]
[F#m] [E]
To the East I look to the West, to the North and the South and I'm not too [F#m] impressed.
Time after time after crime after crime, they raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered.
[E] Well Jesus Christ was their God and they done it in his name, so he could take their blame if it's not all [Em] a game.
[F#m] With Bible in one [G#] hand and a sword in the other, they came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish [E] mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers.
With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art, way [F#m] of life and culture, tribal and structure.
We had [E] a civilization when they [Bm] were still not ancestor [E] nation.
We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia, the Iraqi [F#m] people with their history so deep.
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 same.
[F#] You took what was not yours, went against your own Bible, you broke [C#] your own laws just to outdo the [E] rival.
But did you ever apologize for the hundreds of millions of lives you destroyed and terrorized?
Have you never realized, [F#m] did you never feel [C#m] shame for what was done in your [C#] country's name?
And find out who's to blame and why [Bm] they were so [E] inhumane.
And still they teach you in your school about those glorious days of rule, how it's your destiny to be superior to me.
[N] But if you've any kind of mind, you'll see that all humankind [E] are the children of this earth and your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out.
We [F#m]
[E] [A]
give [F#m] our love to [E] be free, to be free.
[A] You'll never kill [F#m] our will to [E] be free, to be free.
[A]
You'll never kill [F#m] our will to [E] be free, to be free.
[A]
Inside our minds [F#m] we hold, [E]
hold the key.
[A] [F#] [C#m]
[E] [A] [E]
[A] [F#] [F#m]
[E] [A]
[F#] [A]
[E]
[A] [F#m]
[E]
[A] [F#] [E]
[A] [F#] [E]
[A] [F#] [E]
[A] [F#m]
[E]
[Em]
[N]
[G#]
[G] And that is all we
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Em
121
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I sing the song of the colony, how many years and you're still were not free, and [F#m] your mother cried, _ _ _ 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. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
To the East I look to the West, to the North and the South and I'm not too [F#m] impressed.
Time after time after crime after crime, they raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered.
[E] Well Jesus Christ was their God and they done it in his name, so he could take their blame if it's not all [Em] a game.
[F#m] With Bible in one [G#] hand and a sword in the other, they came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish [E] mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers.
With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art, way [F#m] of life and culture, tribal and structure.
We had [E] a civilization when they [Bm] were still not ancestor [E] nation.
We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia, the Iraqi [F#m] people with their history so deep.
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 same.
[F#] You took what was not yours, went against your own Bible, you broke [C#] your own laws just to outdo the [E] rival.
But did you ever apologize for the hundreds of millions of lives you destroyed and terrorized?
Have you never realized, [F#m] did you never feel [C#m] shame for what was done in your [C#] country's name?
And find out who's to blame and why [Bm] they were so [E] inhumane.
And still they teach you in your school about those glorious days of rule, how it's your destiny to be superior to me.
[N] But if you've any kind of mind, you'll see that all humankind [E] are the children of this earth and your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ We [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ give [F#m] our love to [E] be free, to be free.
[A] You'll never kill [F#m] our will to [E] be free, to be free.
_ _ [A]
You'll never kill [F#m] our will to [E] be free, to be free.
_ [A]
Inside our minds [F#m] we hold, [E] _
hold the key. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ And that is all we

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