John Edmond — Snakes And Snipers

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[Verse]
G C D
  G
We stood for what we know is right
  Am
We stood against the red star's might
  D                            G
We won the fight upon the battlefield
G
But then the politicians came
   Am
And played a silent alien game
    D                                      G
They said that we should bend and we should yield

[Chorus]
G
And the snakes and snipers
C                G
Plagued us in the bush
                                      D
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
       G
Now the snakes and snipers
C
Hide behind the pen
   C             D                G
And try to get us with the written word
G C D

[Verse]
    G
They say the pen is bold and free
   Am
And mightier than the sword could be
   D                                      G
But puppets are the scribes that write the play
G
Those puppets do not know their lot
       Am
They've never heard an angry shot
   D                           G
And only write to earn a weekly pay

[Chorus]
G
And the snakes and snipers
C
Plagued us in the bush
G                                      D
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
       G
Now the snakes and snipers
C
Hide behind the pen
   C             D                G
And try to get us with the written word

[Verse]
  G
So write your periodicals,
Am
Sunday penny horribles
   D                          G
And keep on sniping at us from afar
G
It takes much more than that to keep
 Am
A troopie from his beauty sleep
     D                                G
We're proud of what we did and what we are

[Chorus]
G C D
G
And the snakes and snipers
C
Plagued us in the bush
G                                      D
But they couldn't ever beat us with the sword
       G
Now the snakes and snipers
C
Hide behind the pen
   C             D                G
And try to get us with the written word