Chords
[Intro]
B5 The sun never sets
The blood never dries
The selfless sacrifice
Of the butchers maligned
The sun never sets
The blood never dries
Lest we forB5get
[Intro Riff]
B5 The sun never sets
Teardrops never dry
This deathless bloodshed
Of the whetted knives
For your sons you never wept
The blood never dries
The fruitless sacriB5fice
[Bridge]
Of the master butchers
[Verse 1]
B5 Never trusted in the dark
Pecuniary villeinage
A decaying realm to rapine and plunder
Like maggots colonizing
Contagious disease contaminating
Expansionist plague to pillage and conquer
The union cruciate
[Bridge]
C#5 and saltire
[Verse 2]
B5 The callous cruciate
[Bridge]
C#5 and saltire
[Verse 3]
B5 To beneficiate
[Bridge]
C#5 the graveyard of
[Verse 5]
B5 In the B5name of his tyrannical majesty
To serve the impes tragedy
A cruel serving sovereignty
A subjugating murderous monarchy
[Verse 6]
ReC5collections D#5of the past, reF5vised
Laundered, D5tainted and poisoned
[Verse 7]
B5 F5 But I'll raise a C5toast to D#5memory of those who F5served in the
West D5African squadron
[Bridge]
B5 F5Merciful overlords
[Verse 8]
B5Name of diabolical oligarchy
In the kingdom of demise rules supremacy
Solipsistic crowned nobility
Stern reigning gunboat diplomacy
[Verse 9]
RecolC5lections D#5of the past
ReF5vised, condemn, D5taint and poison
[Verse 10]
B5 F5 But I'll raise my C5glass to the D#5memory of the wretches F5who
Served in the D5preventative squadron
[Bridge]
B5 F5 I saC5lute
[Verse 11]
D#5 F5 D5
[Bridge]
B5 Those who F5tugged at the C5master G#5/D#butcher's apron B5strings
[Intro Riff]
The sun never sets
The blood never dried
The fruitless sacrifice
Of the butchers benign
The sun it never sets
The blood never dries
Lest we forB5get
[Outro]
That the master butchers still whet their knives