Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
A
The King sent for his messenger
D
and the declaration came
A
One hundred golden sovereigns,
D
if the White King could be slain
G
A
The pawns had searched the forest
D
Bb
to make bows and sticks and spears
D
Their wives waved goodbye,
Gm
G
D
A
sadly holding back regretful tears.
They headed for the battlefield
D
before the morning frost,
A
And stared at squared -off sections,
D
they must gain no mind the cost.
G
A
The king ordered positions
D
Bb
in between the castle walls
D
G
And ensured each pawn be buried
Gm
D
beneath the square on
Gm
A
D
which he falls
G
We're warriors of England
D
And we've come to serve
C
A
D
our King.
G
D
Gm
land.
A
Courageously they sing.
The king and queen stood proudly
D
as the infantry advanced
A
The fauns took one step forward,
D
knowing they had no chance
Em
A
But a hundred golden sovereigns
D
Bb
C
D
they saw through winter's mud
G
Their squares soon glowed a crimson,
Bb
A
D
A
tinted by the pawn's own blood
The bishop whispered sacrifice,
D
deliver these men please
A
A victim of the white and varnished,
D
he fell down to his knees
Em
The knights they barged
A
D
and the front line charged and felled
Bb
A
the White King's men
D
G
Gm
The Bishop cried, the Queen has died,
A
Asus4
A
forgive us please, Amen
Attack, attack,
D
the angry King commanded to his men
A
The Queen of England reigns no more,
Em
A
The evening trembled there
D
A
Bb
C
D
in only half a darkened night
G
The enemy had disappeared
Bb
A
D
Bb
A
before next morning's light
D
Bb
I remember the sound
F
A
G
D
Bb
I remember I felt
D
F
like loving and hiding
G
D
Bb
D
I remember fighting again and again
F
A
D
Bb
I remember the clos
D
A
ing of a bridge
Aren't you ashamed
D
A
I feel the shame
D
That you looked in their eyes
A
D
Aren't you ashamed
D
That your blood stained the skies
G
C
Aren't you ashamed,
F
that you murdered for gold
Bb
Eb
C
Aren't you ashamed,
F
A
of the stories you told
Don't you wish you could
A
Don't you wish you were
G
Don't you wish your fin
F
Don't you wish this had
Bb
A
Gm
A
never been?
Next morning all that could be seen
A
No white king or his infantry
D
For through the night they fled
Em
A
No fear of non -survival,
D
Bb
A
no bloody battle dread
D
G
Gm
Just the fearful aftermath
A
D
Gm
A
of tallying the dead
The King cried out in wonder,
D
the British Empire's mine,
A
was worth the losing of my
D
Queen to gain a border line
Em
A
No one heard the bishop
D
Bb
as he fell down and he cried
C
D
C
D
An d no one heard the widows
Gm
A
D
A
of the warriors that died
D
G
We are warriors of England
D
C
A
And we've come to serve our King
D
G
We are warriors of England
Gm
A
Courageously they sing
D
G
We're warriors of England
C
A
D
serve our King
G
We're warriors of England
Gm
A
D
Courageously they sing
We are warriors
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