Intro
G# C, G# D# (x4)
Verse 1:
G# C#
Walk along and talk along,
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And live your lives quite freely.
G# C#
But leave our children with their toys,
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Of peppermint and candy.
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For seagull, I don't want your wings,
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I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 2:
G# C#
Your thoughts they are of harlequin,
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Your speeches of quick-silver.
G# C#
I read your faces like a poem,
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Ka-leidoscope of hate words.
G# C#
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
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I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 3:
G# C#
On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers,
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Dazzling made of toy tin.
G# C#
The big bomb, like a child's hand,
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Could sweep them dead just so to win.
G# C#
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
G# D# G#
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 4:
G# C#
As you fill your glasses,
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With the wine of murdered Negroes.
G# C#
Thinking not of beauty that,
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Spreads like morning sun-glow.
G# C#
Seagull, I don't want your wings,
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I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 5:
G# C#
I pray your dreams of vivid screams,
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Of children dying slowly.
G# C#
And as you polish up your guns,
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Your real self be re-flecting.
G# C#
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
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I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Interlude:
G# C, G# D# (x4)
Verse 6:
G# C#
Vietnam; your latest game,
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You're playing with your blackest Queen.
G# C#
Damn your souls and curse your grins,
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I stand here with a fading dream.
G# C#
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
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I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Outro:
G# C, G# D# (x8), G#
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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G# C# D#
FADGBF FADGBE EADGBE
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