Key: D major
Verse 1
D
G
D
There once
was a
Who ravaged for gain
Bm
G
And millions of captives bore his toils
Bm
G
I've gathered enough now,
To the strong ones only,
to ask for peace
thus he spake
D
G
Except against rebels who
dare to break
deceit or fraud
He would spite the cannon
or break the sword
But others, their elders,
G
D
At the sudden convert's unctuous style
for the peacemaker's
change of way
Even now, while his godly messengers
speak
His guns are aflame and
his enemies weak
He's stolen the blade of the hands
of his
of the earth as oppression runs
While the rebels are blown
from the mouths of his guns
His war -tax devours his subjects' food
D
G
A
He taxes their evil, he taxes their good
G
He taxes their salt till it rots their blood
And leaps on the friendless as
on a prey
G
D
from the strong one's way
But the cries of his victims never cease
D
G
The stifled voices of brave men
D
Em
rise from a thousand cells
Bm
G
While his rascal spies
are spending their blood money
Fast and free,
and this is the Christian to oversee
D
G
D
A wordle of evil a saint to preach
G
D
A holy well -doer come to teach
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