Standard (EADGBE)

 I pledge allegiance to our countrymen

 our country it is safe again

as we safely go to bed at night

 in our warm nests

 I sing my song

 I have been this place before

 as I spoke on to the children

 my hands they seem to tremble

 the closer I get

 I'm a very stupid man

 and I'll lead them to the slaughter

 save the son and daughter of our failing every-man

 our love is a love that gives

 but the price it is uncertain

 and the way it is so dangerous

 to those of little bread

 and I wash my hands clean

 in the waters of optimism

 contaminating pearls with eagles sacrifice my friends

 eagles sacrifice

 eagles sacrifice my fiends

 eagles sacrifice

 sleep sweet countrymen

 till we need you again

 we will raise our arms

 against the face of horror

 and I will fight and feed

 oh in the name of need

 get on your battered knees

 and please don't make a sound

 the soldiers are asleep

 in the holy land of questions

 the most important lesson:

 they get out alive

 and I call out to the parson

 he waves his hands against me

 my countrymen like Christians

 with the li-ons around

 and I call out to the general

 and his most vital position

 as the king of isolation

 in this land of suicides

and I call out to the maidens

 who wear the pelts of jackals

 and little less but shackles

 fill our lust-filled appetites, my friends

 our lust-filled appetites

 our lust-filled appetites, my friends

 our lust-filled appetites

 this sweet countrymen

 is where our paths will end

 your duties pair adjust

 my duties what I must

 only I think of you

 in what I have to do

 I'll burn the chapel house

 and make attempts of truce

 and I don't live a gifted life

 I'll hoist your flag and make it mine

 against the wall that's closing tight

 I'll send your wounded down the line

 oh I will count the ways

 oh each and every day

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

 so please

 rise for the very honored judge

 the jury has you to appeal

 we'll make this gallow pole your home

 we'll make our motives very clear

(other lyrics for round, over previous verse)

I will fall into the depths of hell

before I sail this ship a port

forget about the house of god

and go away this house of fear

as the saints go marching in I know

I want more gin to think and

if I die before I wake I

bet you are my sin to take

END:

  sleep sweet countrymen

  oh my country-men

  sleep sweet countrymen

  oh my country-men

  sleep sweet countrymen

  oh my country-men

  sleep sweet country

  sleep sweet country-men