Tonalité : D major
Verse 1
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I am a member of the council
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of the naval mutiny
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D
And no traitor to my conscience
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D
having done my sworn duty
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These are my last words before the scaffold
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and I charge you all to hear
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How a wretched British sailor
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became a citizen mutineer
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Pressed into service to carry powder
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I was loyal to the crack of the whip
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It I starved on the streets of Bristol,
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I starved worse on a British ship
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Red is the colour of the new republic
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Blue is the colour of the sea
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White is the colour of my innocence
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Not surrender to your mercy
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I was woken from my misery by
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D
the words of Thomas Paine
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On my barren soil they fell like
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the sweetest drops of rain
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Red is the colour of the new republic
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Blue is the colour of the sea
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While is the colour of my innocence
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D
Not surrender to your mercy
So in the spring of the year
we took the fleet
Every cask and cannon
and compass sheet
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And we flew a Jacobean
A
flag to give us heart
Bm
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While Pitt stood helpless we
Bm
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were waiting for Bonaparte
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D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
Blue is the colour of the sea
D
White is the colour of my innocence
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D
G
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D
Not surrender to your mercy
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All you soldiers, all you sailors,
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D
all you labourers of the land
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All you beggars, all you builders,
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all you come here to watch me hang
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To the masters we are the rabble,
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D
we are the 'swinish multitude'
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But we can re- arrange the colours of the
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red and the white and the blue
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Red is the colour of the new republic
G
Blue is the colour of the sea
D
White is the colour of my innocence
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D
Not surrender to your mercy
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D
Red is the colour of the new republic
G
Blue is the colour of the sea
D
White is the colour of my innocence
G
A
D
Not surrender to your mercy
Outro 1
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