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Adapted Kipling 1919
Engine 11 2024
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_copybook1.htm
Lyrics
Copybook Headings RDennyII(c)2024
as i pass through incarnations in every age and race
i make my proper prostrations to the market place
peering through reverent fingers i watch them flourish and fall
the gods of the copybook headings i notice outlast them all
we were living in trees when they met us they showed us each in turn
water would certainly wet us fire would burn
we found them lacking in uplift vision and breadth of mind
so we left them to teach gorillas while we followed the march of mankind
we moved as the spirit listed they never altered their pace
being neither cloud nor windborne the gods of the market place
but they always caught up with our progress and presently word would come
that a tribe had been wiped off its icefield or the lights went out in rome
with the hopes our world is built on they were utterly out of touch
denied the moon was stilton denied she was even dutch
denied wishes were horses denied a pig had wings
so we worshipped the gods of market who promised these beautiful things
when the cambrian measures were forming they promised perpetual peace
they swore if we gave them all our weapons the war of tribes would cease
when we disarmed they sold and delivered us bound to our foe
and the gods of the copybook headings said stick to the devil you know
on the first feminian sandstone we were promised the fuller life
started out loving our neighbor ending loving his wife
till our women had no more children men lost reason and faith
and gods of the copybook headings said the wages of sin is death
in the carboniferous epoch we were promised abundance for all
by robbing selected peter to pay for collective paul
though we had plenty of money there was nothing our money could buy
and the gods of the copybook headings said if you don't work you die
then the gods of the market tumbled their smooth tongued wizards withdrew
and the hearts of the meanest were humbled believed that it was true
that all is not gold that glitters two and two make four
the gods of copybook headings limped up to explain it once more
as it will be in the future it was at the birth of man
there are only four things certain since social progress began
the dog returns to his vomit the sow to her mire
and the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire
and after this is accomplished the brave new world begin
when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins
as surely as water wet us surely fire will burn
the gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return
===============================chords
Copybook Headings RDennyII(c)2024
[G#m - G#m(a) - G#m - G#m(a)]***
[E - Bsus4 - Asus2 - C#m]2x ver
[G#m - G#m - G#m - E/C#m]2x ver
[E - Bsus4 - Asus2 - C#m]2x ver
[G#m - G#m(a) - G#m - G#m(a)]***
[C#m - G#m - Bsus4 - E] ver alt
[G#m - E - C#m - Bsus4] ver alt
[E - Bsus4 - Asus2 - C#m]2x ver
[G#m - G#m - G#m - E/C#m]2x ver
[E - Bsus4 - Asus2 - C#m]2x ver
[G#m - G#m(a) - G#m - G#m(a)]***
[C#m - G#m - Bsus4 - E] ver alt
[G#m - E - C#m - Bsus4] ver alt
[Amaj7-Emaj7-C#m-Bsus4] brdg
[D#b5-Emaj7-C#msus2-G#msus4]
[C#m - G#m - Bsus4 - E] ver alt
[G#m - E - C#m - Bsus4] ver alt
[E - Bsus4 - Asus2 - C#m]2x ver
[G#m - G#m(a) - G#m - G#m(a)]***
forms
Amaj7576xxx
Emaj7x798xx
C#mx11119xx
Bsus4x999xx
D#b5x678xx
Emaj7x798xx
C#msus2xx664x
G#msus4x666xx
