{"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":699319,"song":"Colony","artist":"Damien Dempsey","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11582301-colony-chords-by-damien-dempsey/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/699319?type=chord","rating":4.73938,"votes":29,"content":"Intro: [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nChorus:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nI Sing the song of the colony,[/tab]\r\nHow many years and your still not free,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd your mother cries,Oh and you ask God why.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGreed is the knife, and the scars run deep,[/tab]\r\nHow many races with much reason to weep,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd your children cry, Oh and you ask God why.[/tab]\r\nVerse:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnnie, she came from Dunlaven town,[/tab]\r\nThe TB came, and killed her family all around,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nPopulation boomed, livin' in two rooms.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nKatie she came from down Townsend street,[/tab]\r\nTen in her bed, and no shoes on their feet,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\n1916 came, they played the patriots game.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nFreddy, he came form the Iveagh flats,[/tab]\r\nTenement slums and infested with rats,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nSleepin on damp straw, tryin not to break the law.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nThomas he came from Kilmainah Mayo,[/tab]\r\nSemi starvation was the only life you know,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn a two room shack, then jailed in Letterfrack.[/tab]\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nChorus:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nI sing the song of the colony,[/tab]\r\nHow many years and your still not free,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd your mother cries, oh and you ask God why.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGreed is the knife, and the scars run deep,[/tab]\r\nHow many races with much reason to weep,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd your children cry, oh and you ask God why.[/tab]\r\nVerse:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nI look to the east, I look to the west,[/tab]\r\nTo the north and the south,\r\nAnd im not too impresed.\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nTime after time after crime after crime,[/tab]\r\nThey rape, rob, pilage, enslaved, and murdered,\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nJesus Christ was their God,[/tab]\r\nAnd they done it in his name,\r\nSo he could take the blame if its not all a game,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWith Bible in one hand,and a sword in the other,[/tab]\r\nThey came to purify my land, E\r\nAnd my Gaelic Irish mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers\r\nWith our own anchient customs, laws, music, art,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWay of life and culture[/tab]\r\nTribal in structure, we had a civilisation,\r\nWhen they were still neanderthal nations\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe suffer with the Native American,[/tab]\r\nThe Indian in Asia,\r\nAboriginal Australia,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThe African people with their history so deep,[/tab]\r\nAnd our children still weep,\r\nAnd our lives are still cheap,\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey came from Germany and France, from England and from Spain,[/tab]\r\nFrom Belgium and from Portugal,\r\nYou all done much the same,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nYou took what was not yours,[/tab]\r\nWent against your own Bible,\r\nYou broke your own laws, just to outdo the rival\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut did you ever apologise,[/tab]\r\nFor the hundreds of millions of lives,\r\nYous destroyed and terrorised, or have you never realised\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nDid you never feel shame for what was done in your countrys name,[/tab]\r\nAnd find out whos to blame, and why it was so in-humane.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd still they teach you in your school,[/tab]\r\nAbout those glorious days of rule,\r\nAnd how its your destiny to be, superior to me,\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nBut if you've any kind of mind,[/tab]\r\nYou'll see that all human kind\r\nAre the children of this earth,\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]F#m[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,[/tab]\r\nYou'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,\r\nYou'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]F#m[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nInSide our minds, we all hold the key![/tab]\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] Till outro","plain_text":"Intro: E\nA F#m E\n\n\nHow many years and your still not free,\n\n\nHow many races with much reason to weep,\n\nVerse:\n\nThe TB came, and killed her family all around,\n\n\nTen in her bed, and no shoes on their feet,\n\n\nTenement slums and infested with rats,\n\n\nSemi starvation was the only life you know,\n\nA F#m E\n\n\nHow many years and your still not free,\n\n\nHow many races with much reason to weep,\n\nVerse:\n\nTo the north and the south,\nAnd im not too impresed.\n\nThey rape, rob, pilage, enslaved, and murdered,\n\nAnd they done it in his name,\nSo he could take the blame if its not all a game,\n\nThey came to purify my land, E\nAnd my Gaelic Irish mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers\nWith our own anchient customs, laws, music, art,\n\nTribal in structure, we had a civilisation,\nWhen they were still neanderthal nations\n\nThe Indian in Asia,\nAboriginal Australia,\n\nAnd our children still weep,\nAnd our lives are still cheap,\n\nFrom Belgium and from Portugal,\nYou all done much the same,\n\nWent against your own Bible,\nYou broke your own laws, just to outdo the rival\n\nFor the hundreds of millions of lives,\nYous destroyed and terrorised, or have you never realised\n\nAnd find out whos to blame, and why it was so in-humane.\n\nAbout those glorious days of rule,\nAnd how its your destiny to be, superior to me,\n\nYou'll see that all human kind\nAre the children of this earth,\n\n\nYou'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,\nYou'll never kill our will to be free, to be free,\n\nA F#m E Till outro","chords":["E","A","F#m"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}