Chords
Liberty Unmasked

Key: G

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
G                                                                                    C  
  Come see pioneers starving on trout
                        Em  
Meet the drunkards of spirit,
          D                      G  
of soil, of stout
          G  
But old silent fires
                                                     C  
shall someday bathe all
     Em                                                 D  
A cider ferments in us all
Final call!
G  
  Hear the prophets
                                                          C  
whose days have gone dim
                     Em  
And for all royal silver,
                D                                    G  
she still won?t wed him
                          G  
Hear the bastards,
                                                  C  
yes among us, they go
Em  
All flaunting freedoms
             D                    G  
so scarcely known
G    C    Em    D  
G                 D    G              C  
  How I see, merrily,
G                    D                         C  
  The unmasking of liberty
G                    D         G              C  
  As she bows to misery,
G  
  But her open hands,
CEm                                  D  
          The joy and dance
G  
  And this pattern
                                                  C  
across our great quilt,
Em                                    D  
     for ages to span
G                                                                                    C  
  You?re a traveller packing for years
Em                                              D                         G  
Armour of rage in a shower of tears
                        G  
And you never could see
                                                                C  
that you were wild and loose
                  Em  
?Til a baby blue soldier
          D  
forbid you to choose
                                     G  
Now you cry, ?Off with these systems
                                                     C  
And off with these laws!
Em  
Bring on the seasons,
          D  
tradition, and song!
             G  
The patterns and cycles!
                                          C  
We, hitchers of stars,
                  Em  
shall reel in adventure
             D  
To shatter these boards
                                                  G            C    Em    D  
To march from these wars
G    C    Em    D  
G                 D    G              C  
  How I see, merrily,
G                    D                         C  
  The unmasking of liberty
G                    D         G              C  
  As she bows to misery,
G  
  But her open hands,
CEm                                  D  
          The joy and dance
G  
  And this pattern
                                                  C  
across our great quilt,
Em                                    D  
     for ages to span
G                                         C  
  But her open hands,
Em                                 D  
     the joy and dance
G  
  And this pattern
                                                  C  
across our great quilt
Em                                    D  
     For ages to span