Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
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Look here old chap it's us
who gave you civilization
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Invasion!
If a man in your house
told you to come out
And told you to live in the garden
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If it happened to you tell me
what would you do
fight and fight them?
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Those old old Europeans
Verse 2
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they had a lot of man
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They went over to other peoples land
To conquer was their intention
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Those old old Europeans
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They went over to America to
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conquer the red Indians
Verse 3
Well I don't know about you
but I tell you what I do
When I am looking at a western
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When I'm watching the telly,
the red Indians as the real bad man
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They had a lot to give,
because they did not want to live
In a little old dirty reservation
They did not care because they
were just there
Defending their own homeland
Europeans come not 1 by 1 but in
their tens and thousands
with the intention of taking all the best land
and giving the Indians the bad one
Well you must understand
that the red Indian
Were not just savages and madman
I am aware that they were just there
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Reacting like any human
Verse 4
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If a man
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in your
house told you to come out
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And told you to live in the garden
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If it happened to you tell me
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wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them? Those
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old old Europeans they had a lot of man
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They went over to other peoples land
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To conquer was their intention
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Those old old Europeans
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They went over to South Africa to try and
Verse 5
conquer the South Africans
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Cecil Rhodes and his posse of Europeans
they came to we African land
They came for a fight with the
gun in their right
And the Bible in their left hand
They treated us with nuff disgust
Never treated us like man and woman
Treated us like something
from outer space
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Like something that you
We were first class citizens in Africa
They made us second class citizens
It is mad and bad and so so sad
To be a prisoner in your own land
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But me people fight for the truth and right
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And truth and right must stand
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So that system apartheid must be destroyed
It can't carry on too long
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Verse 6
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If a man in your house
told you to come out
D
And told you to live in the garden
If it happened to you tell me
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wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them?
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Those old old Europeans they had a lot of man
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They went over to other peoples land
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To conquer was their intention
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Those old old Europeans
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were a very cheeky man
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They would turn round and say
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that they gave us civilisation
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Verse 7
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Look here old chap its us
who gave you civilisation
if it wasn't for us the you'd be
running around
without any clothes on
We taught you to eat with a knife in your
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right and the fork in your left hand
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If it wasn't for us you would be fighting
with spears instead of which shotguns
Dm
We think your gold and silver
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For bringing you out of the
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past and into the present
You owe a lot to us I'm sure
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you are in agreement
D
So anything we say to do just
do it and keep silent
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These so- called civilised
Verse 8
men
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came with their big weapons
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Killed off Tigers, elephants,
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rhinoceroses and Lions
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Then put their heads in dining
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rooms for decoration
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Now tell me does that sound
like a civilised person
Verse 9
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Those old old Europeans
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They went over to other peoples land
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To conquer was their intention
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Those old old Europeans
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were very clever man
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They always made it seem like that
Verse 10
they were the righteous one
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Now everybody in here
has got a television
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And each and every body
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must have seen tarzan
You know the one,
where you see a whole heap of Africans
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Looking kinda mean with their war paint on
And From one tree swings
a white man
Shouting aaaaaah like any mad man
And with 1 dry piece of knife in his hand
He kills all the Africans one by one
Well me and you know it's imagination
Dm
But to some people it is confusion
D
It's just another trick a diversion
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Created by those grand old Europeans
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Those old old Europeans
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they had a lot of man
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They went over to other peoples land
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To conquer was their intention
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Those old old Europeans
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they had a lot of man
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They went over to America,
went over to South Africa
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went over to India, went over to Australia,
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went over the Jamaica, went ...
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