Voltaire – Crusade (Guitar)

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Hello, if you prefer, you can play it using just the Dm and C without using the bass note that I add in the chord name. [Intro] Dm C/E Dm/F C/E Dm Dm C/E Dm/F C/E Dm F C Dm C Dm Dm C/E Dm/F C/E Dm [Verse]
 Dm    C/E    Dm/F C/E Dm
Long ago,  I went to  war

    Dm         C/E         Dm/F C/E Dm/F
To fight the scourge of Christendom

   F     C        Dm C    Dm   C    Dm
I held aloft my blessed sword, and said

     C    Dm   C   Dm
"By God, let them come!"
[Interlude] Dm Dsus2 Dm C/E Dm/F C/G Dm/A Dm C Dm C Dm [Verse]
      Dm        C/E       Dm/F C/E  Dm
They said their eyes are red   as flame

   Dm       C/E       Dm/F  C/G  Dm/A
I heard it told from hell they  came

        F        C           Dm      C   Dm C
Their breath is fire, their tongues are forked

  Dm          C          Dm C    Dm
Thus are the beasts of Dragon's Gate
[Chorus]
Bb C        F        Dm    Gm      Gm7 Dm
I heard my father's words deep in my  heart

  Bb    C       F   Dm    C Bb         Dm
"Son, know your enemy, as I   know my son."
[Interlude] Dm Dm C/E Dm/F C/G Dm/A Dm C Dm C Dm [Verse]
     Dm         C/E        Dm/F C/E Dm
The Fates were kind, they let  me   in

      Dm      C/E       Dm/F C/G  Dm/A
The dragon's lair, the den   of  sin

    F         C     Dm C    Dm
I placed my sword upon its heart

C    Dm      C          Dm  C   Dm
And with a prayer, I thrust it in
[Interlude] Dm Dm C/E Dm/F C/G Dm/A Dm C Dm C Dm [Verse]
      Dm    C/E   Dm/F C/E Dm
The dragon fell upon the ground

        Dm    C/E      Dm/F C/G  Dm/A
'Twas then I heard a whimpering sound

    F    C           Dm C    Dm
A dragonling to his father clung

  C Dm     C           Dm   C   Dm
Who only fought to protect his young
[Chorus]
Bb C        F        Dm    Gm      Gm7 Dm
I heard my father's words deep in my  heart

  Bb    C       F   Dm    C Bb         Dm
"Son, know your enemy, as I   know my son."
[Interlude] Dm C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm F C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm F C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm [Verse]
 Dm      C/E   Dm/F C/E Dm
Now, my son is off to  war

    Dm        C/E              Dm/F C/G Dm/A
To fight the new scourge of Christendom

    F      C         Dm C   Dm  C    Dm
He holds aloft his brazen sword and says

  C    Dm   C   Dm
"Dad, let them come!"
[Interlude] Dm C Dm C Dm [Verse]
     Dm         C/E       Dm/F C/E  Dm
He swears their eyes are red   as flame

     Dm       C/E       Dm/F  C/G Dm/A
And heard it told from hell they came

        F        C           Dm     C    Dm
Their breath is fire, their tongues are forked

  C  Dm       C      Dm C   Dm
Thus are the men of Muslim faith
[Chorus]
 Bb   C         F       Dm    Gm      Gm7  Dm
Son, hear your father clear, deep in your heart

  Bb    C       F   Dm    C Bb                  C  Bb
"Son, know your enemy, as I   would have them know...

    Dm   C     Dm C Dm
my son."
[Outro] Dm C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm F C Dm C Dm Dm C Dm C Dm