Key: D major
Verse 1
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G
I am a member of the council
G
D
And no traitor to my conscience
G
D
having done my sworn duty
A
G
D
and I charge you all to hear
A
D
G
Pressed into service to carry powder
A
D
I starved worse on a British ship
A
D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
A
D
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
A
D
the words of Thomas Paine
D
G
A
D
the sweetest drops of rain
A
D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
So in the spring of the year
we took the fleet
Every cask and cannon
and compass sheet
Bm
A
While Pitt stood helpless we
Bm
D
were waiting for Bonaparte
G
D
Red is the colour of the new republic
A
D
G
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
A
D
all you labourers of the land
D
A
D
all you come here to watch me hang
A
D
G
To the masters we are the rabble,
A
D
we are the 'swinish multitude'
A
D
red and the white and the blue
A
D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
D
G
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
A
D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
Outro 1
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ChordsD G A Bm
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