Tabbed by: milliontimes

Chords Used: D5 A5 E5 C5 D5 F5 A5

[slow part]
    D5
Oh! Oliver Boy what did you do?
    A5
But crush the hand you never shook
     E5                             D5
Then rob the rights of people to be free
    D5
Oh! Oliver Boy it's a terrible state
    A5
You left behind a worse off race
      E5                                 D5
Where dignity and pride fought for their place
    C5              D5
Oh! Oliver Boy now you are gone
    A5                     D5
And we're still here where we belong
A5                                          D5
Forgiveness being our strength you'll never see

[slow part over]

D5
Now the sun shines on this page I write
            A5
Though it's raining hard in Palestine
   E5
No lands are promised lands
             D5
When will we see?
[ D5 ]
So don't tell me that your God's my God
        A5
I don't think they even care at all
       E5                                 D5
Just a pantomime behind a curtain lies de-ceit

   C5            D5
Oh listen to me bark out loud
     A5              D5
With-out a voice and little growl
C5               D5
Snapping at the heels I wait
A5
For something more to change
                       Dm [fades directly into Chorus]
The more they stay the same

[Chorus 1]
D5
Oliver Boy! It's the same militia
D5
Oliver Boy! Just the clothes are different
F5
Oliver Boy! It's the same old story
A5                                     D5
Where there's blood there's death not glory

D5
Look into these empty eyes
A5
Fed upon by parasites
E5                                D5
As beauty's ugly head devours its plight
[ D5 ]
While the borders of our hate create
A5
Nothing more than each our fate
E5                                  D5
Trapped between our comfort and our crime
   C5               D5
So stand along the graveyard wall
    A5                  D5
And watch the souls per-form their song
C5              D5
Sing to us the dead above
       A5
As the mourners come to pray
                D5
The living stay away

[Chorus 2]
D5
Oliver Boy! It's the same militia
D5
Oliver Boy! Just the clothes are different
F5
Oliver Boy! It's the same old story
A5
Where there's blood there's death not glory
D5
Oliver Boy! We're all someone's sons
D5
All of our Boys! Just put down the guns
F5
Oliver Boy! You're dead but listen
A5                                 D5
You were wrong but we're no diffe-rent

[Solo - not figured out]

D5                      D5
   Marching to the left,  everyone in step
D5 F5                         A5
     Don't ask the question, why we're here with no direction
D5                       D5 
   Marching to the right,  this is not our fight
D5 F5                        A5
     The curse of friction, born of man and contradiction

[Chorus 2]

D5
All of our Boys!

[slow part]

D5
Now the sun shines on this page I write
            A5              A5     D5
Though it's raining hard in Pales-tine


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