New Model Army

Our ^Bm history speaks in thunder from a ^A thousand village halls
In ^Bm blood and sweat and sacrifice, in ^A honouring every call
So the ^Bm forces gathered against the thorn a- ^A piercing in their side
A ^Bm brave new world is beckoning so the ^A older world must die.
In the ^Bm offices of the city, at all the ^A tables of oak and power
The ^Bm snares are laid and baited for the app ^A roaching of the hour
A ^Bm hundred justifications and the ^A presses are ready to roll
The ^Bm gateways to the nation they are ^A firmly under control
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^Bm On, on, on, cried the ^A leaders at the back
We went ^Bm galloping down the blackened hills
And ^A into the gaping trap
The ^Em bridges are burnt behind us and there's ^D waiting guns ahead
^F# Into the valley of ^G death rode the brave ^Bm hundreds ^{D G Bm D G}
We ^Bm called for some assistance from the ^A friends that we had known
But ^Bm this is the 1980s and ^A we were on our own
We ^Bm never felt like heroes or ^A martyrs to a cause
Just ^Bm battle-weary soldiers in a ^A bloody civil war
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The ^C#m massacre now is over and the order new enshrined
While a ^A quarter of the nation are abandoned far behind
The ^C#m leaders offer the cliche words, so righteous in defeat
But ^A no one needs morality when there isn't enough to eat
The ^Ebm unity bond is broken and the loyalty songs are fake
I'll screw my only brother for even a glimpse at a piece of the cake
We only cry in private here behind the shuttered glass
When we think of the charge of this brigade, the ^D severing of the past
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