The Dominion of the Sword

歌詞

Lay by your pleading, law lies a-bleeding Burn all your studies down, and throw away your reading Small power the word has, and can afford us Not half so much privilege as the sword does It'll the foster the master, plaster disaster This'll make a servant quickly greater than the master Ventures, enters, seeks and it centres Ever the upper hand, never a dissenter Kruger, Krugerrand-a, whither do you wander? Gone to the suborning of Hastings Banda Kruger, Krugerrand-a, tear you all asunder Beira to Luanda, Gabarone to Nyanga Talks of small things, it sets up all things This'll master money, though money masters all things It is not season to talk of reason Never call it loyal when the sword says treason Balm for the worrier, the whaler, the furrier This'll get the measure of a Rainbow Warrior Incognito, come and sink a Rainbow President will never know, I should bloody coco Subtle deceiver, turns calm to fever See the pilgrim flay the unbeliever It'll make a lay man, preach and to pray man It'll make a Lord of him that was but a drayman Conquers the crown too, grave and the gown too Set you up a province, but it'll pull it down too No gospel can guide it, no law decide it In church or state, till the sword sanctified it Take books, rent 'em, who can invent 'em? When that the sword says there'll be no argumentum Blood that is spilt, sir, has gained all the guilt, sir Thus have you seen me run my sword up to the hilt, sir