เพลง The Dominion of the Sword

The Dominion of the Sword - Martin Carthy

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