The Ring of the Lords

The Lord of the Rings, but from the Orcs point of view...


Dm
We were strong, we were free,
we had skills, liberty,
F                           Am
we had no lords, no need to work,
Dm
Night and day.

Dm
Our orclings went to schools
Learned knowledge,
Not just rules,
          F
We could hope,
        Am
And holiday,
     G
And live.

A7 (0100 and 0200 and 0110)
Then the evil elves came.
They took our power,
made us slaves
to their beauty and their art,
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but just for them.

Dm
Now we were ignorant and in debt,
trapped and yet,
    F            Am
to them we were nothing.
                    Dm
They called us beasts.

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Free to work, In ignorance,
Free to smoke and drink and dance,
just as long as we know our place, under them.

Dm
Then the revolution came,
lead by one, who gave us hope,
F               Am
Sauron shone like the sun,
           Dm
We fought back!

Dm
We build machines,
Learned to craft,
We had music, we had art
               F
These were no longer,
           Am           Dm
Just controlled by the elves.

A7
But one dressed in white,
with a staff, some called  Gandalf,
he sent us back,
to the dark ages,
again.

Dm
Now we're trapped, no longer free,
We've no power or industry,
F                           Am
Pretty elves look down on us,
Dm
Every day.

A7
No Elf insurance,
On a back to Orc scheme,
I have drug hobbit,
One of the squeezed middle Earth, middle class.

Dm
But we still dance, in a ring
to remember, one precious thing,
          F
that one day,
          Am
we'll be free,
Dm
of the lords.

(Sing twice)