07/02/2019
Am working on a new album, entitled No Peace I Find. A collection of songs about conflict. Will be using and rerecording some of my previous material such as 'Kilcannon' and ' The Mercantile Marine'. Am looking for a choir so I can do justice to 'A Soldiers Farewell from my musical play 'The Black Preacher'. The piece is in 3 sections, a male, female then a solo over the combined voices which could be either, though the range is quite wide. Included will be a song I performed at my last gig. Ashamed to say I forgot my own words. See what you think. It's about the forgotten graves of those Republicans killed in the Spanish civil war. Desconcidos
Intro Riff on Em
V1 Em A
Come closer, Do you remember my face?
CM7 F #
I think you may know me from some long distant place
Em A
Come nearer, don’t be so cold.
CM7 F #
Were we not not compadres a long time ago?
Bm Bm7b5
But different lives and beliefs, made fools of us both.
Am B7
Made me your prisoner. Took away all our hope.
V2 Em A
You conspired with deceit to hide our memories
CM7 F #
And all that we stood for against your tyrannies.
Em A
Do we haunt you now with the conceit of your guilt?
CM7 F #
Was our sacrifice worth the edifice that you built?
Bm Bm7b5
A cathedral of hate that we can never forgive.
Am B7
All the life you have taken that was not yours to give.
V3 Em A
And we will appear to you on your last day on Earth
CM7 F #
To show you a secret you should have learned from your birth.
Em A
Naked we’re born and naked we die.
CM7 F #
All the riches and power are the Devil’s great lie.
Bm Bm7b5
These ghosts stand before you. Do you feel no shame?
Am B7 Tacet
There is no redemption. No mercy. No fame.
V4 Em A
Here we stand before you, to watch death take your pride.
CM7 Tacet Riff on Em
As desconidos you killed us. As desconidos we died.
