Agisymban Trilogy chords by John Edmond

Agisyman Trilogy

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They called it Agisymba this fair and promised land
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And it was the stoneage home of the little yellow man
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And he hunted with the bow and he worshipped to the sun
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Yes he was the hunter but he was the hunted one
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Then down from the jungles there came the Turbid Tribes
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With their spears and their shields and their long flashing knives
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And they hounded the bushman from his painted caves and lands
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   To the merciless wastes of the Kalahari sands.

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Then came the Arabs and the sturdy Portugese
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To the land they called Sofala from the seven seas
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And they fought Monomotapa?s warriors of old
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To run across his kingdom and take away his gold
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Then the Matabele came running from the Boer
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To plunder the Mashona and wage another war
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And the columns came a-marching and they ruled for many years
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And they called the land Rhodesia those British pioneers

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And the white man worked and the black man toiled
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And the tribes all fought and rebellions boiled
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And the world went mad with two world wars
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And ?though men died they never settled their scores
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And the madness spread it's the same damn thing
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Hear the war drums throb hear the bugles ring
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And they named Zimbabwe through the barrel of a gun
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And the winners lost and the losers won.

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But live in this land and share all the spoils
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You reap what you sow through labours and toils
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Black man and White man have all paid a price
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Yellow man?s gone like a mad sacrifice

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Agisymba Sofala Monomotapa
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Rhodesia Zimbabwe call it what you can
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You all can live in it but no one can win it
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