Redemption Song

by Chris Salewicz

  Waving bibles soaked in petrol

  My leaders burn our shantytown

  They slam that bible on the pulpit

  Grinding only poor men down

  Liars talk of purity

  They dream the super-race

  I give my Scots-Armenian laugh

  Into his Indu-Saxon face

  But when power is turned to hunger

  And scientists will tire of war

  When money no longer has a number

  We will see what prophets saw

  Joe Strummer

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  First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

  This revised edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

  Copyright © Chris Salewicz 2006, 2007, 2012

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