the colours
the colours

the colours easy guitar chords by The Men They Couldn't Hang

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    • Verse 1
    I 
    am 
    a 
    member 
    of 
    the council 

    of 
    the 
    naval 
    mutiny 

    And 
    no 
    traitor 
    to 
    my 
    con
    science 

    having 
    done 
    my 
    sworn 
    duty 

    These 
    are 
    my 
    last 
    words 
    before 
    the scaffold 

    and 
    I charge 
    you 
    all 
    to 
    hear 

    How 
    a 
    wretched 
    British 
    sailor 

    became 
    a cit
    izen 
    mutineer 

    Pressed 
    into 
    ser
    vice 
    to 
    carry 
    powder 

    I 
    was 
    loyal 
    to 
    the crack 
    of 
    the 
    whip 

    It 
    I 
    starved 
    on 
    the streets 
    of 
    Bristol, 

    I 
    starved 
    worse 
    on 
    a 
    British 
    ship 

    Red 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the new 
    republic 

    Blue 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    sea 

    White 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    my 
    innocence 

    Not 
    surrender 
    to 
    your 
    mer
    cy 

    I 
    was 
    woken 
    from 
    my 
    misery 
    by 

    the 
    words 
    of Thomas 
    Paine 

    On 
    my 
    barren 
    soil 
    they 
    fell 
    like 

    the sweetest 
    drops 
    of 
    rain 

    Red 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    new 
    republic 

    Blue 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the sea 

    While 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    my 
    innocence 

    Not 
    surrender 
    to 
    your 
    mer
    cy 

    So 
    in 
    the spring 
    of 
    the year 

    we 
    took 
    the 
    fleet 

    Every 
    cask 
    and 
    cannon 

    and 
    compass 
    sheet 

    And 
    we 
    flew 
    a Jacobean 

    flag 
    to 
    give 
    us 
    heart 

    While 
    Pitt 
    stood 
    helpless 
    we 

    were 
    waiting 
    for 
    Bonaparte 

    Red 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    new 
    republic 

    Blue 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the sea 

    White 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    my 
    innocence 

    Not 
    surrender 
    to 
    your 
    mer
    cy 

    All 
    you 
    soldiers, 
    all 
    you 
    sail
    ors, 

    all 
    you 
    labourers 
    of 
    the 
    land 

    All 
    you 
    beggars, 
    all 
    you 
    builders, 

    all 
    you 
    come 
    here 
    to 
    watch 
    me 
    hang 

    To 
    the 
    masters 
    we 
    are 
    the rabble, 

    we 
    are 
    the 'swinish 
    multitude' 

    But 
    we 
    can 
    re- 
    arrange 
    the 
    colours 
    of 
    the 

    red 
    and 
    the 
    white 
    an
    d 
    the 
    blue 

    Red 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    new 
    republic 

    Blue 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the sea 

    White 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    my 
    innocence 

    Not 
    sur
    render 
    to 
    your 
    mer
    cy 

    Red 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    new 
    republic 

    Blue 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    the 
    sea 

    White 
    is 
    the 
    colour 
    of 
    my 
    innocence 

    Not 
    surrender 
    to 
    your 
    mer
    cy 

    Outro 1



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