Lirik dan Chord Lagu Children’s Crusade – Sting

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris, Sting, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Children’s Crusade”.

Lagu bergenre rock tersebut dirilis pada 1985 melalui label A&M Records.

“Children’s Crusade” muncul dalam album studio pertamanya yang bertajuk The Dream of The Blue Turtles.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu We Work the Black Seam - Sting

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Children’s Crusade” dari Sting:

[Intro]

F#m

[Verse 1]
Bm                    G             A                  E   
Young men and soldiers, nineteen fourteen.
Bm                        G             A                 C
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Bm              G            A                 E
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
C             Cmaj7            A   C A C
All for a children's crusade

[Verse 2]
Bm                  G                  A             E
Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Bm                  G             A                 C
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Bm               G                 A                  E
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
C                Cmaj7          A
All of those young lives betrayed

[Chorus]
        C                 G                   C             G
The children of England would never be slaves
              C                     Bm          Em        Bb13
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
        C             G                     C               G
The Flower of England face down in the mud
        C                   Bm              Em          Bb13
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

[Verse 3]
Bm            G             A                E
Corpulent generals safe behind lines
Bm            G        A                       C
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Bm              G                  A                  E
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
C                Cmaj7           A         C A C
All of those young lives betrayed
C           Cmaj7      Em
All for a children's crusade

[Solo]

Em Bm7

[Chorus]
        C               G                      C            G
The children of England would never be slaves
             C                     Bm          Em         Bb13
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
        C              G                   C                 G
The Flower of England face down in the mud
         C                   Bm            Em           Bb13
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

[Verse 4]
Bm             G       A                   E
Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty-four
Bm          G               A          C
Fixing in door ways, opium slaves
Bm               G                A                    E
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
C          Cmaj7               A        C A C
All of those young lives betrayed
C            Cmaj7           Em
All for a children's crusade.

Em Bm7