Robert Scott, of The Clean, The Bats, interpreter of Robbie Burns (Zelle Records) and co-worker on many projects, composed the music and plays a Czech Cold War guitar given to him by a grateful student. Here are the words and chords, for easy learning.

..G..............C..........D.........C	
You, who by ambition rise, 
..Am....................C..............D
Envoys of the favoured first, 
..G.................C............D...............C
May our emotion leave you wise,
....Am........C..................D
If fair equality you crave,
..........C..................G............Am........D
And not by despoilment to enslave,
...........C............G.............Am.......D
And not, despoilment to enslave.


..G.........C.......D...................C	
Histories, brutal and infected,
..Am...............................C.................D
(Sour rain of the remembered past),
..G..........C..........D...............C
Subterfuges too late detected,
............Am.............C.................. D
Suppressed and banished, in drunk rapture,
..C...............G..................Am.............D
Art and learning, by fraud and capture,
..C...............G..................Am..............D
Art and learning, by fraud and capture.

..G...............C................D.................C	
You, who hear our modest request,
......Am..........................C...............D
We do not seek to scorn, but ask—
..G.................C.....................D..........C
By whose mandate you dispossess?
.........Am.................................C.........D
By what mandate do you disesteem?
...C....................G................Am.............D
Mandate of crime, that gold may gleam
...C.....................D................C.................G
Mandate of crime, that gold may gleam
.............C.................G
That gold may gleam ... 

* May 2021 (Scott/Direen APRA)

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