Song is Part of Vancouver Sessions - Duets with guitarists -my nephew Cary Campbell. We were unable to video the sessions bu hope you will follow alonganyway....peace to all
Chorus:
(C#m7)As I'm locked up in the keep (A).
(G#m7) Venerable Bede...writing history for the sheep (Amaj7).
(C7) The victor writes the tale of his foe (B7).
I sit (3) and write (2) what's left untold (Em)
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(E-Bar) Orwell well he got it right (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) America, Euro and Asia...who's with us tonight? (A-Bar)
(E-Bar) It's hard to follow the players without a card...its all about power that's all (A-Bar).
(E) Yesterday's villain today's friend (A).
(E) While the policies shift in the sands. (A)
(E) The Vikings, the Romans, and the Britt's (A)
(B7) couldn't have dreamed pulling off something like this (Em). (Chorus)
(E-Bar) Well baby, nobody will stop us now. We'll just take your resources for now (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) We'll give you money from the monetary bank (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) We want free trade-your utilities and banks (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) We'll take what we want and kick sand in your face (A-Bar).
(Em) We don't care what you think, we're the strongest and that makes us right (A).
(Em) We'll use religion and stomp out those that think out loud (A)
(B7) we're home to the free, the powerful and proud (Em). (Chorus)
(E-Bar) All the worlds' stage-children don't have water and food at this date (A-Bar)
(E-Bar) we have a trillion dollar industry making war toys (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) It would be a shame if they had to stop (A-Bar).
(E-Bar) Wouldn't do too have that many unemployed (A-Bar).
(E) We keep hosting wars to keep what we got (A)
(Em) the epitaph will say for comfort so they fought (A).
(Em) Orwell got it right (A)
(B7) America, Euro and Asia...who's with us tonight? (B7) (Chorus)
Brad! you really know how to write songs. love it!
onkelbuke 4 months ago
@onkelbuke Nice to see the message - have another I will post shortly...keep jamming and playing - thats how you'll learn.....all the best :)
BradCampbell63 4 months ago
Great jammin, wonderful song and message. Love it that you're recording with your nephews. That's awesome for them, awesome for my ears. Hugs and love, my brother - Suze
suuzzee5 5 months ago
@suuzzee5 Thanks Suze...I'm workin on more new stuff and will keep posting the Vancouver sessions intermitently until I have then all up...I wish I had video to go with them but we just hit the record on the old tape machine and off we went....all the best and this is the time of year best for writing poetry and making love...have a wonderful week :)
BradCampbell63 5 months ago
Amigo.... Wish I was there jammin along... Maybe fate will allow a little get together here in Ottawa or somewhere....In the meantime enjoyin the tunes yer crankin out my friend!! Cheers!
canajian 5 months ago
@canajian Never Say Never....I 'm back around Parry Sound and getting Ready to hunker down for the winter....hope to have more time to write in the next month....thanks for the note and dropping by the home page :)
BradCampbell63 5 months ago