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Sea Green Singers - (The) War
Machine Rolls Round- For an enlarged A4 image, click on the image.
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The verses are in unison; use the Soprano rhythm for verse 1, alto for verse 2 tenor for 3 and bass for 4 Chorus And the war machine rolls round and round and the poor and the weak get trampled on the ground and from where we stand their cries are drowned by the clink of the franc and dollar and pound as the war machine rolls round |
The War Machine Rolls Round - words and music: Sue Gilmurray 1. In the Eastern skies the great hawks fly over bloodied hills where children die, and the instruments of tyranny were bought from Britain P.L.C As the war machine rolls round 2. And the prisoner sleeping were he fell will awake to one more day of hell from a U.S. baton's searing pain His body bound by a Sheffield chain as the war machine rolls round |
3. We've an industry that lives and thrives
making tools to shatter human lives and our honest workers ply their skill helping distant tyrants maim and kill as the war machine rolls round 4. It is time my friends for us to say we will not sell death to earn our pay it is time for arms exports to cease For the world will never live in peace while the war machine rolls round |