Key: C major
Verse 1
F
G
E
D
A
E
There has to be more than this
A
F
Ab
G
C
Cm
Is there no reason for me to exist
F#
G
F
But for as a plaything of miscreants,
F#
F
malingerers, dastards and knaves?
E
Verse 2
A
F
G
C
How is it so
E
Am
A child can be bought for
Dm
G
a year's worth of grain?
A
F
G
C
In this day and age
Eb
C
It's hard to explain but
Ab
G
F
it happens again and again
Verse 3
F
G
F
E
D
A
E
I'll never forget the scene
F#
F#m
F#
Face and dis appear under
G
F
E
thew wheels of the cart
Verse 4
Eb
Db
Then the sky parts
D
F#
Pillar of rain
C
E
It is my mother
Verse 5
E
A
F
G
C
In another life
E
Am
Dm
G
If I ever had children of my own
A
F
G
C
I'd cleave them to my breast
Eb
C
Ab
Bbsus4
G
And con vey them far from this country of demons made
F
flesh
Interlude 1
Dm
Am
E
Dm
D
E
Eaug
E
Abm
G
C
D
G
F
G
E
F
E
Verse 6
A
F
G
C
E
My last bedfellow is choked
Eaug
Am
Dm
G
to death on a dummy of puke
A
F
G
C
I stole this horse,
E
Am
Old Speckled Brownface
Dm
G
From the royal tannery
A
F
G
C
Haunches glossy with sweat
Eb
C
We burst through the birch
Eb
C
Turn our heads north
Eb
C
With dawn in our lungs we reach the border
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