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Columbus (Didn't Find America)

from The "Dog Show Sessions" Live by Show of Hands, Track Dogs

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The Santa Maria sailed out of the sun
Warrior priests with crosses and guns
On a thousand tides in a million waves
They came carrying sickness, cattle and slaves

Columbus didn’t find America
It wasn’t lost it was always there
I won’t celebrate 500 years
Of plundering wealth and scattering tears

Alvarado and Cortés (Alvarado y Cortes)
Almagro, Pissarro and all the rest (Almagro Pissarro los conquistadores)
The raped the land then they stole the sun (Violaron la tierra taparon al sol)
Thieves and butchers every one (Ladrones son todos carniceros )

Columbus didn’t find America
It wasn’t lost it was always there
I won’t celebrate 500 years
Of plundering wealth and scattering tears

The forest stretched from shore to shore
The water was clean and the air was pure
Now driven from the land and living in slums
Without names, without tongues

In 1492 (Mil cuatrocientos noventa y dos)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue (Sobre las mares tres caravelas)
Now the third world sickens and the first grows fat (El viejo se engorda y se pudre el nuevo)
Might have been better had the earth been flat (El mundo mejor si fuese plano)

Columbus didn’t find America
It wasn’t lost it was always there
I won’t celebrate 500 years
Of plundering wealth and scattering tears

Columbus didn’t find America
It wasn’t lost it was always there
I won’t celebrate 500 years
Of plundering wealth and scattering tears

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from The "Dog Show Sessions" Live, released February 1, 2023

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Show of Hands are an English acoustic roots/folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. Joined by singer and double-bassist Miranda Sykes in 2004, and percussionist Cormac Byrne in 2019, Show of Hands continue to perform as a duo as well as in the four-piece band format. ... more

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