Chords for Levellers - Raft Of The Medusa

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_ [D] _ The Medusas sailed to Senegal in _ [F] 1816.
[D] First we [Dm] lost the cabin port at Old Montfortis
Hall.
We had to swing the lead, there were shallows
all around.
With a sickly brain we took to prayer, the
Medusas were on the ground.
We rolled on the grass, we're sailing [F] in
the sun.
[G] And the hundreds bit me [Dm] on the raft, we've
[D] lost another one.
You can't deny a royalty, a thrift [F] and a
love.
[G] I had a joke, look him out [Dm] of the eye, when
he's [G] spinning out his bones.
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_ [D] _ Be the royal [A] you sell this raft, take all
your [Dm] company.
Yet seventeen remain behind to [D] die in agony.
He mused on the wine and fear, but his knife and [Dm] teeth.
Fifty died on the raft, seven around me.
We're [G] rolling on the raft, [D]
we're sailing in
the [F] sun.
[G] And the hundreds [Dm] bit me on the raft, we've
lost [D] another one.
You can't deny a royalty, a thrift and [F] a
love.
[G] I had a joke, look him [Dm] out of the eye, [D] when
he's spinning out his bones. _ _ _
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[D] _ A wondrous sight, so bright and white, a
butterfly sent by God.
Follow it down, just swallow it down, [F] all
[D] for us.
Praise the Almighty, cast yourself to the
sea.
As the bird aches, the Argus comes clobbered
by the sea.
We're rolling on the raft, we're sailing
[F] in the sun.
[G] And the hundreds bit me on the raft, [Dm] _
we've
lost another one.
You [G] can't deny a royalty, a thrift and [F] a
love.
[G] I had a joke, look him out of [F] the eye, when
he's spinning out [Dm] his _ bones. _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ My arms, my own true flesh, died so [F] quietly.
[C] You breathe to the butterfly, [F] oh the [D] Almighty.
I am my mouth, my own true flesh, tasted sweet
to [C] me.
You breathe to the [F] butterfly, and the [G] Argus
finally.
[D] _ We're rolling on the raft, we're sailing in
the [F] sun.
[D] And the twenty others found the craft, we've
lost another one.
You can't deny a royalty, [G] a thrift and [F] a
[G] love.
I had a joke, look him out of the [F] eye, when he's spinning [D] out his bones. _ _ _ _
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