Tonalidad: Ab major
Verse 1
G
This reading is from a book entitled
Port of
C
Saints, which has just
G
been published in
a limited edition.
Gm
The book is a sequel to the
Wild
A
Boys, giving me rather like the
G
Tarzan series, my namesake
A
G
Edgar
Rice, and concerns an army of the dead who
C
G
travel in time and set out to alter retroactively
the course of history.
This selection is called
Firecracker.
F
G
We will right all the
wrongs of history.
We will kill all the shits before
they can be born.
Old
Sarge,
all right you hard -on artists walking your dead
C
meat in here dumping a pile of
trouble into my lap.
G
Get this, you are
D .E .A .D. which is another way
of saying
you're back in the army.
Fall in, we're shipping out.
D
Their first trip takes them
West
Indian island in 1845.
G
They use the film
Kemahda as a
springboard and land as military advisors
to a handful of guerrillas
equipped with flintlock rifles and led by
José
Dolores.
The guerrillas have reached a standoff
with the slovenly
Portuguese.
This gives the advisers time.
However,
British troops equipped with the new
Bb
G
percussion lock rifles are on the way.
C
They will be led by
Sir
William
G
Walker, an expert in guerrilla warfare.
How to build effective weapon
Bb
G
s from the materials available?
C
Bb
There is iron ore in the area oc
G
cupied by the guerrillas.
A
G
There is still time.
Old
Sarge.
C
G
All right, you jokers, we are going to build weapons,
I mean weapons designed to kill.
C
G
He holds up a flintlock rifle,
not designed to blow up in your face and not work when
C
it rains and only kill one enemy at a time
G
C
G
at 50 feet if the wind is right.
We have iron ore and we have time.
C
Sure
Sir
G
William is on his way with his redcoats.
C
F
By the time he gets here we'll be ready
G
for his redcoats.
Now the first step in inventing anything new is
to forget what you know already.
Forget everything you know about springs, triggers,
machine -made parts, and concentrate
on firepower.
power, how to get the most killing power
F
G
from where you are to where they are.
Look at what the enemy does not have,
F
G
the thing they don't have that is the easiest
for you to build.
Any of you jokers know what that is?
Well, I'll tell you, boys,
G
it's a firecracker.
G
D
Six hundred years of firearms and they never
learned to use a firecracker.
G
By that I mean an exploding projectile, whether thrown by hand,
propelled from a launcher,
fired from a cannon, or dropped from a plane,
whether the explosive charge is black powder
or atomic fission.
600 years of cannonballs,
and did it ever occur to them to have a cannonball that explodes
on contact?
Like I say, they never
learned to use the firecracker.
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