Dominion of the Sword
(Trad. Arr. Lester, with a bit of help from Kasimir)
INTRO:
[G]
[G]Lay by your pleading, the [C]law lies a-bleeding
[F]Burn all your studies, and [G]throw out your reading.
[G]small pow'r the word has, [C]and can afford us
Not [F]half so much privilege [G]as the sword does.
It [A]flusters your masters, it [Bm]plasters disasters,
It [C]maketh the servant more [G]great than his masters.
It [A]ventures, it enters, it [Bm]seeks and it centers,
It [C]sings out the truth 'twixt the [G]loyal and dissenters
BRIDGE:
[D] [Em] [C]
[D] [Em] [C]
[D] [Em] [C]
[D]
It talks of small things, but it sets up all things;
Now this masters money, though money rules all things.
It is not season to talk about reason,
Nor say it is loyalty, when the sword says it's treason.
It conquers the crown too, the grave and the gown too
It raises the Godi then pulls him down too
No thulur can guide it, no law can decide it
In temple or state, 'til the sword sanctified it
BRIDGE
He that can tower, or he that is lower,
Would be judged a fool if he laid down his power.
Take books and rent 'em, who can invent 'em,
When all that the sword says "Negator argumentum"
Your brave college-butlers must stoop to the sutlers;
There's not a library like to the cutlers'.
But the blood that was spilt sir hath all of the guilt, sir
And thus have I run my sword up to the hilt, sir
BRIDGE
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