{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1798292,"song":"Agisymban Trilogy","artist":"John Edmond","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11395616-agisymban-trilogy-chords-by-john-edmond/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1798292?type=chord","rating":4.39653,"votes":5,"content":"Agisyman Trilogy\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey called it Agisymba this fair and promised land[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        \r\nAnd it was the stoneage home of the little yellow man[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                                 \r\nAnd he hunted with the bow and he worshipped to the sun[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYes he was the hunter but he was the hunted one[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen down from the jungles there came the Turbid Tribes[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith their spears and their shields and their long flashing knives[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they hounded the bushman from his painted caves and lands[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   To the merciless wastes of the Kalahari sands.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen came the Arabs and the sturdy Portugese[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo the land they called Sofala from the seven seas[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they fought Monomotapa’s warriors of old[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo run across his kingdom and take away his gold[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen the Matabele came running from the Boer[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo plunder the Mashona and wage another war[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the columns came a-marching and they ruled for many years[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd they called the land Rhodesia those British pioneers[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the white man worked and the black man toiled[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the tribes all fought and rebellions boiled[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the world went mad with two world wars[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd ‘though men died they never settled their scores[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                  \r\nAnd the madness spread it’s the same damn thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHear the war drums throb hear the bugles ring[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                \r\nAnd they named Zimbabwe through the barrel of a gun[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the winners lost and the losers won.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut live in this land and share all the spoils[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]A7[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou reap what you sow through labours and toils[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBlack man and White man have all paid a price[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYellow man’s gone like a mad sacrifice[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAgisymba Sofala Monomotapa[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRhodesia Zimbabwe call it what you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou all can live in it but no one can win it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor it always belonged to the Little Yellow Man (x2)[/tab]","plain_text":"Agisyman Trilogy","chords":["G","C","D","Em","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}