A Country Denied chords by Rome

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: E minorEm

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
E minorEm C majorC x2

Verse 1:
  E minorEm
 Oh you, my lowland brother
C majorC
 What did we really know of each other
E minorEm                C majorC
 They had seen to it that we were kept apart
  E minorEm
 Oh you, my lowland brother
C majorC
 When did we lose each other
E minorEm                         C majorC
 For you were but a boy with the freedom of falcons in is heart

Chorus:
A minorAm
 When did we know that we were on the wrong side
C majorC
 That this war had always been just a matter of pride
A minorAm
 When did we notice the one with the land we loved
C majorC
 You'll cry within your heaven above
FF
 This is no time for amnesia
DmDm
 And what glue would hold us together now
          E minorEm
 If not the soil of Rhodesia

Bridge:
E minorEm C majorC x2

Verse 2:
E minorEm                C majorC
 Rhodesia still lies in all the slain wild beasts
                          E minorEm
 And in the wind of the cotton land still in their lungs
                C majorC
 And their sightless eyes of a honeydew sun
E minorEm
 Now we're sleeping in circles
    C majorC
 On the stones of silverstream
E minorEm
 Under nectar-weeping trees
     C majorC
 Through blood-curdling screams

Chorus 2:
A minorAm
 This call for the great divide
C majorC
 It felt like an end to pride
FF
 A augmentedA country dead before the seizure
DmDm           E minorEm
 A augmentedA country denied - Rhodesia

Bridge:
E minorEm C majorC x2

Verse 2:
E minorEm                C majorC
 Rhodesia still lies in all the slain wild beasts
                          E minorEm
 And in the wind of the cotton land still in their lungs
                C majorC
 And their sightless eyes of a honeydew sun
E minorEm
 Now we're sleeping in circles
    C majorC
 On the stones of silverstream
E minorEm
 Under nectar-weeping trees
     C majorC
 Through blood-curdling screams

Chorus 2:
A minorAm
 This call for the great divide
C majorC
 It felt like an end to pride
FF
 A augmentedA country dead before the seizure
DmDm
 A augmentedA country denied