The Dominion Of The Sword-Martin Carthy

[ti:The Dominion Of The Sword] [ar:Martin Carthy] [al:Right Of Passage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Dominion Of The Sword - Martin Carthy [00:17.10]Lay by your pleading law lies a bleeding [00:20.11]Burn all your studies down [00:21.38]And throw away your reading [00:22.76]Small power the word has [00:24.12]And can afford us [00:25.65]Not half so much privilege as the sword does [00:28.28] [00:39.01]It'll the foster the master plaster disaster [00:41.83]This'll make a servant quickly greater than the master [00:44.58]Ventures enters seeks and it centres [00:47.28]Ever the upper hand never a dissenter [00:50.08] [01:00.94]Kruger Krugerrand a whither do you wander [01:03.64]Gone to the suborning of Hastings Banda [01:06.27]Kruger Krugerrand a tear you all asunder [01:08.88]Beira to Luanda Gabarone to Nyanga [01:11.71] [01:22.60]Talks of small things it sets up all things [01:25.14]This'll master money [01:26.34]Though money masters all things [01:27.78]It is not season to talk of reason [01:30.51]Never call it loyal when the sword says treason [01:33.01] [01:44.20]Balm for the worrier the whaler the furrier [01:46.79]This'll get the measure of a Rainbow Warrior [01:49.37]Incognito come and sink a rainbow [01:52.04]President will never know [01:53.41]I should bloody coco [01:54.79] [02:05.42]Subtle deceiver turns calm to fever [02:08.14]See the pilgrim flay the unbeliever [02:11.00]It'll make a lay man preach and to pray man [02:13.68]It'll make a Lord of him [02:14.94]That was but a drayman [02:16.49] [02:27.01]Conquers the crown too grave and the gown too [02:29.69]Set you up a province but it'll pull it down too [02:32.35]No gospel can guide it no law decide it [02:35.09]In church or state till the sword sanctified it [02:37.85] [02:48.56]Take books rent 'em who can invent 'em [02:51.24]When that the sword says there'll be no argumentum [02:53.85]Blood that is spilt sir [02:55.11]Has gained all the guilt sir [02:56.52]Thus have you seen me [02:57.61]Run my sword up to the hilt sir