Tonart: D major•
Intro 1
A
D
Em
Verse 1
G
Captain said to the soldier,
don't you worry ahead
D
Half these peasants can't write or read
Bm
They only want to grow the
corn they need
A
And if a stranger tries to make them
change their ways
G
A
He'll be betrayed
D
And his body will be burned,
Em
either alive or dead
A
F#m
Like a secret book that must not be read
G
Em
By a people who are never
to be taught to read
F#m
Because the book of law and order
D
A
is the only book they need
D
And those who live by the word
E
Em
will die by the sword
G
The farmer was planting
his highest field,
he was sleeping on the hill
I've seen their lap,
Bm
I've heard strangers talking
They were making their camp,
A
it's by the dry river that
they're hiding
G
Captain, I can show you one of them
D
Em
Where the dry river runs,
A
F#m
the soldiers took their time
G
Em
He could not breathe or climb,
F#m
D
A
they ringed him with their guns
Bm
Two soldiers scrubbed the
school where he was shot
A
Bm
The poor man, who could not read,
G
A
might read in blood.
D
Em
Mother, mother, see your son,
A
F#m
what do his wounds say?
G
Em
Only he should not have gone,
D
A
not have gone to play,
Bm
Out beyond the streets we know,
out beyond the town,
A
Bm
Till the bullet that he sewed grew up
G
A
in a thousand guns to cut him down.
D
His body could have been cared
A
He might have written books
that would have been read and read
Em
who would have learned to read
F#m
D
Because time to grow
A
is all a child's all a world needs
B
Bm
But where could he have found rest?
As a writer in the East
A
Hunted by secret police
Bm
G
Tortured till he confessed
A
D
But those who live by the word
Em
G
Here in the easy west
Where he could have lived at least
Bm
Well fed, well dressed
Out beyond the street we know
Out beyond the town
A
Bm
Till the bullets that he so grew up in
G
A
D
Em
A thousand guns to cut him down
Bm
And yet the dead man
A
still is with his wounds alive
Bm
Will with his wounds survive
D
Em
And the rich man's mind,
A
F#m
who when he does not give
G
Em
To let the poor man live,
F#m
D
A
will turn and see behind
G
A man with a broken knife,
a man not pure or good,
D
A slaughtered man whose blood
Bm
pays for the rich man's life.
A
A slaughtered man whose blood
G
pays
A
for the rich man's life.
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