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