The Cygnet Committee

D D/C 
I bless you madly 
Bm Bb D 
Sadly as I tie my shoe 
D/C 
I love you badly 
Bm Bb D D/C 
Just in time, at times, I guess 
Bm Bb D D/C 
Because of you I need to rest 
Bm Bb D 
Because it~s you that sets the test 
 
Eb Bbm 
So much has gone and little is new 
Bbm A 
And as the sparrow sings 
F# 
Dawn chorus for 
Bbm 
Someone else to hear 
Bbm A 
The thinker sits alone 
F# Bbm 
Growing older 
 
And so bitter 
 
F Bbm 
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all 
C Fm 
They drained my very soul...dry 
F Bbm 
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains 
C Fm Ab 
No thought for me remains there 
Bbm Db 
Nothing can they spare 
C 
What of me? 
 
Am F 
Who praised Their efforts to be free? 
G C 
Words of strength and care and sympathy 
Am F 
I open doors that would have blocked their way 
G C 
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay 
Am F 
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those 
G C 
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility 
Am F 
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free 
G C 
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~ 
 
Am F G 
 
 
D D/C 
I bless you madly 
Bm Bb D 
Sadly as I tie my shoe 
D/C 
I love you badly 
Bm Bb D D/C 
Just in time, at times, I guess 
Bm Bb D D/C 
Because of you I need to rest 
Bm Bb D 
Because it~s you that sets the test 
 
Eb Bbm 
So much has gone and little is new 
Bbm A 
And as the sunrise stream 
F# Bbm 
Flickers on me 
Bbm A 
My friends talk of glory, untold dream 
F# Bbm 
Where all is God and God is just a word 
 
F Bbm 
~~We had a friend, a talking man 
C Fm 
Who spoke of many powers that he had 
F Bbm 
Not of the best of men but Ours 
C Fm Ab 
We used him, We let him use his powers 
Bbm Db 
We let him fill our needs 
C 
Now we are strong. 
 
Am F 
And the road is coming to its end 
G C 
Now the damned have not time to make amends 
Am F 
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way 
G C 
The silent guns of love will blast the sky 
 
Am F 
We broke the ruptured structure build of age 
G C 
Our weapons were tongues of crying rage 
Am F 
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth 
G C 
And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt 
 
Am 
Infiltrated business cesspools 
F 
Hating through Our sleeves 
G 
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat 
C 
Stoned the poor on slogans as: 
 
 
-Wish You Could Hear- 
Am 
-Love Is All We Need- 
 
-Kick Out The Jams- 
 
-Kick Out Your Mother- 
F 
-Cut Up Your Friend- 
G 
-Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End- 
 
C Am 
And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above 
F 
And We Can Force You to Be Free 
G C 
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~ 
 
Am 
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain 
F 
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain 
G 
For they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain, 
 
It said: 
 
C 
~~I Believe in the Power of Good 
Am 
I Believe in the State of Love 
F 
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right 
G 
C 
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~ 
 
Am F 
And I open my eyes to look around 
G 
And I see a child laid slain on the ground 
C Am 
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows 
F G 
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command 
C 
But not hearing anymore- 
Am F 
Not hearing anymore 
G 
Just the shrieks from the old rich 
 
C 
And I Want to Believe 
G 
In the madness that calls ~Now~ 
C 
And I Want to Believe 
G 
That a light is shining through somehow 
 
Bb 
And I Want to Believe 
F 
And You Want to Believe 
C 
And We Want to Believe 
G 
And We Want to Live 
Ab 
Oh, We Want to Live 
Bb 
We Want to Live 
C 
We Want to Live 
 
 
(marching-type beat configuration appears) 
 
G 
We Want to Live 
Ab 
We Want to Live 
Bb 
We Want To Live 
C 
I Want to Live 
 
G 
I Want to Live 
Ab 
I Want to Live 
Bb 
I Want to Live 
C 
I Want to Live 
G 
I Want to Live 
 
Ab 
Live 
Bb 
Live 
C 
Live