Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years

[drkhage]

I'd love to have the chords too. Can anyone post them? Sorry silentfrequency, I can't figure it out from what you've posted.

[robinwitch666]

This is actually a parody of the second part of one of Kipling's lesser-known pieces, "The Song of the Dead":

We have fed our sea for a thousand years

And she calls us, still unfed,

Though there's never a wave of all her waves

But marks our English dead:

We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest,

To the shark and the sheering gull.

If blood be the price of admiralty,

Lord God, we ha' paid in full!....

It's not a particularly good poem. What the anonymous adapter made of it is far better.

[Nenne908]

Great song (Y)

[MissMelpa]

Our labor chorus is singing this song! What a great song.

[Nahar2006]

Thank you so much for including the lyrics, I couldn't find them anywhere.

[silentfrequency]

what are the chords for this?

[Skeletorical]

@silentfrequency G/C/D/Em not in that order. Not sure of the order. Haven't tried yet.

[Adornai]

Could anybody Upload Utha Phillips "Timber beast lament" ?

I love it !