Tonalidad: D major
Verse 1
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G
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There once
was a
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pirate greedy and bold
Who ravaged for gain
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and he saved the spoils
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Till his coffers were bursting
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with bloodstained gold
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And millions of captives bore his toils
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Then feared the cold of him and he cried
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I've gathered enough now,
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war should cease
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And he sent out messages far and wide
To the strong ones only,
to ask for peace
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We're Christian brethren,
thus he spake
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Let's seal a contract never to fight
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G
Except against rebels who
dare to break
Bm
The bonds we've made
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by the victor's right
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The strong ones listen and some ap plaud
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At the kindly offer and
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the righteous word
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With never a dream of
deceit or fraud
He would spite the cannon
or break the sword
But others, their elders,
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listened and smiled
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
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He strikes the unarmed, a merciless blow
of the earth as oppression runs
While the rebels are blown
from the mouths of his guns
His war -tax devours his subjects' food
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G
A
He taxes their evil, he taxes their good
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He taxes their salt till it rots their blood
And leaps on the friendless as
on a prey
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And slinks tail down
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D
from the strong one's way
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The Pharisee's cant goes up for peace
But the cries of his victims never cease
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G
The stifled voices of brave men
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Em
rise from a thousand cells
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While his rascal spies
are spending their blood money
Fast and free,
and this is the Christian to oversee
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D
A wordle of evil a saint to preach
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D
A holy well -doer come to teach
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A prophet to tell us that war should cease
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This is a pious example of Christian peace
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