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Colony chords by 
Sharon Shannon And Damien Dempsey
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I Sing
the Song of the Colony
I sing the song of the colony
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And your mother cries
And you ask God why
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Greed is the knife and
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
Em
And your children cry
You ask God why
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Annie, she came from Dunleaven town
The TB came and killed her
family all around
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Population boom, eleven in two rooms
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Katie, she came from
downtown Dan Street
Ten in a bed, no shoes on their feet
Em
1916 came,
they played the Patriot game
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Freddy came from the Ivey flats
Tenement slums and
infested with rats
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Sleeping on damp straw
Trying not to break their law
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Thomas he came from Kilmainham,
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Semi -starvation was the only life you'd
Em
With a two -room shack,
Then jailed and let her frack.
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I sang the song of the colony
How many years
and you still were not free
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And your mother cries, oh,
you ask God why
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Greed is the knife and
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
Em
And your children cry, oh,
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Em
you ask God why
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I look to the east, I look to the west
To the North and the South,
and I'm not too impressed
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Time after time after
crime after crime
They raped, robbed, pillaged,
enslaved and murdered
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Well, Jesus Christ was their God,
and they'd done it in His name
So He could take their blame,
if it's not all a game
Em
With Bible in one hand
and the sword in the other
They came to purify my land
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That my Gaelic Irish mothers an d fathers
and sisters and brothers
With our own ancient customs, laws,
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music, art, way of life and culture
Tribal and structure, we had a civilisation
When they were still in the
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Andathar nations
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And we suffer with the Native American
The Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia
Em
The African people with
their history so deep
And our children still weep
and our lives are still cheap
D
You came from Germany, from France,
from England and from Spain
From Belgium, Holland, Portugal,
you're all the much the same
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Em
You took what was not yours,
you went against your own Bible
You broke your own laws
just to outdo the rival
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But did you ever apologise
for the hundreds of millions of lives
You destroyed and terrorized
that you never realized
Em
Did you never feel shame
for what was done
in your country's name?
And find out who's to blame
and why they were so inhumane
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And still they teach you in your school
about those glorious days of rule
How it's your destiny to be superior to me
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But if you've any kind of mind
you'll see that all humankind
Are the children of this earth
And your hate for them
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will chew you up and spit you out
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You'll never kill a will
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to be free, to be free
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You will never kill our will
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to be free, to be free
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Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
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