Colony chords by
Sharon Shannon And Damien Dempsey

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Intro 1

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
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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
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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,
Mayo
Semi -starvation was the only life you'd
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With a two -room shack,
Then jailed and let her frack.
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Em Em 
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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
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And your children cry, oh,
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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
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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
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The African people with
their history so deep
And our children still weep
and our lives are still cheap
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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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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
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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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