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