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Agisymban Trilogy by John Edmond
Agisymban Trilogy
Capo:no capo
G C G
They called it Agisymba this fair and promised land
C D G
And it was the stoneage home of the little yellow man
C D G
And he hunted with the bow and he worshipped to the sun
C D G
Yes he was the hunter but he was the hunted one
C G D G
Then down from the jungles there came the Turbid Tribes
C G D G
With their spears and their shields and their long flashing knives
C G D G
And they hounded the bushman from his painted caves and lands
C G D G
To the merciless wastes of the Kalahari sands.
C G
Then came the Arabs and the sturdy Portugese
C D G
To the land they called Sofala from the seven seas
C D G
And they fought Monomotapa’s warriors of old
C D G
To run across his kingdom and take away his gold
C G D G
Then the Matabele came running from the Boer
C G D G
To plunder the Mashona and wage another war
C G D G
And the columns came a-marching and they ruled for many years
C G D G
And they called the land Rhodesia those British pioneers
C D G Em
And the white man worked and the black man toiled
C D G Em
And the tribes all fought and rebellions boiled
C D Em
And the world went mad with two world wars
A7 D
And ‘though men died they never settled their scores
Em
And the madness spread it’s the same damn thing
C D
Hear the war drums throb hear the bugles ring
Em
And they named Zimbabwe through the barrel of a gun
C D
And the winners lost and the losers won.
G C G
But live in this land and share all the spoils
A7 D
You reap what you sow through labours and toils
G C G
Black man and White man have all paid a price
D G
Yellow man’s gone like a mad sacrifice
C G
Agisymba Sofala Monomotapa
A7 D
Rhodesia Zimbabwe call it what you can
G C G
You all can live in it but no one can win it
D G
For it always belonged to the Little Yellow Man (x2)
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