Jean Desprez - Country Joe Mcdonald Chords
Chords: Capo, D, E, G, Dsus, A, Dsus2, Asus
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Genre: folk, rock, psychedelic
Jean Desprez by Country Joe McDonald
Vinyl Album: War! War! War! Vanguard Records
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMCBOXTPOVo&list=RDxMCBOXTPOVo&start_radio=1
Poem by Robert W. Service 1916
Music by Country Joe McDonald 1971
Capo 2
Key: D
[Intro]
D D E E
G G D Dsus D
[Verse 1]
D E
Oh, ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance
E G A D Dsus2 D
Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant boy of France
D E
A lad uncouth and warped with toil, yet who, when trial came
E G A D
Could feel within his soul upleap and soar the sacred flame;
D E
Could stand upright, and scorn and smite, as only heroes may:
E G A D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D
Oh, hearken! Let me try to tell the tale of Jean Desprez
[Verse 2]
D E
With fire and sword the Teuton horde was ravaging the land
E G D
And there was darkness and despair, grim death on every hand;
D E
Red fields of slaughter sloping down to ruin's black abyss;
E G A D
The wolves of war ran evil-fanged, and little did they miss
D E
And on they came with fear and flame, to burn and loot and slay
E G D G D Dsus D
Until they reached the red-roofed croft, the home of Jean Desprez
[Verse 3]
D E
"Rout out the village one and all!" the Uhlan Captain said
E G D
"Behold! Some hand has fired a shot. My trumpeter is dead
D E
Now shall they Prussian vengeance know; now shall they rue the day
E G A D G D
For by this sacred German slain, ten of these dogs shall pay."
D E
They drove the cowering peasants forth, women and babes and men
E G A D
And from the last, with many a jeer the Captain chose he ten
D G D
Ten simple peasants, bowed with toil, they stood, they knew not why
E D G D
Against the grey wall of the church, hearing their children cry;
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