Pre>tuning: one semitone lower than standard      Intro: am- f g am- f g      Am e am e am   There's a man walking round the island with a snake cane   Am e am e am   He picked it up in thailand from a hurricane   C g   And you know he's not gonna go there   F g   He's been one time too long   C am   Now all the gods are gone (though the game is gone)   The younger boys are drowning in a shallow sea   The night belongs to snipers in palm trees   And their sabres flashed like lightning   In the charge of the last brigade   They must have been afraid      E   Soldiers have their sorrow   F   The wretched have their rage   Dm g   Pray for the aged it's the dawn of another age   Am   Of another age   C   Of another age   Am   Of another age      The blood running down the blackboard on a blank(? ) screen (in a thin stream? )   The convicts shake their cages of a bad dream   And they'll coach you in the classroom that it cannot happen here   But it has happened here   I remember nothing that I memorized (the cockroach cops are crawling on a battle ground)   I got my education from a black eye (the shields are in the shadows, it's a college town)   And they'll teach you law and order   If you dare to raise your hand   Spare the glove and spoil the man   Soldiers have their sorrow   The wretched have their rage   Pray for the aged   It's the dawn of another age   Of another age   Of another age      Thomas paine and jesse james are old friends   And robin hood is riding on the road again   We were born in a revolution and we died in a wasted war   It's gone that way before   The dogs are chasing chicken bones across the lawn   If that was an election, I'm a viet cong   So I pledge allegiance against the flag   And the (fall,flaw,cloth? ) for which it stands   I'll raise/raze it if I can (pledge allegiance to the land)   Soldier have their sorrow   The wretched have their rage   Pray for the aged   It's the dawn of another age   Of another age   Of another age   Of another age   Of another age /pre>