Firecracker (Excerpt) Chords

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[Verse 1]
This reading [G]is from a book entitled
Port of
[C]Saints, which has just
[G]been published in
a limited edition.
The book is a [Gm]sequel to the
Wild
[A]Boys, giving me rather like the
[G]Tarzan series, my namesake
[A]Edg[G]ar
Rice, and concerns an army of the dead who
[C]travel in time and [G]set out to alter retroactively
the course of history.
This selection is called
Firecracker.
[F]We will right [G]all the
wrongs of history.
We will kill all the shits before
they can be born.
Old
Sarge,
all right you hard -on artists walking your dead
meat in here dumping a [C]pile of
trouble into my lap.
[G]Get this, you are
D .E .A .D. which is another way
of saying
you're back in the army.
Fall in, we're shipping out.
Their first trip [D]takes them
back [C]to a
West
Indian island in 1845.
[G]They use the film
Kemahda as a
springboard and land as military advisors
to a handful of guerrillas
equipped with flintlock rifles and led by
José
Dolores.
The guerrillas have reached a standoff
with the slovenly
Portuguese.
This gives the advisers time.
However,
British troops equipped with the new
[Bb]percussion lock rifles are on the [G]way.
They will be [C]led by
Sir
William
Walker, [G]an expert in guerrilla warfare.
How to build effective weapon
[Bb]s from the [G]materials available?
There is iron [C]ore in the area [Bb]oc
cupied [G]by the guerrillas.
[A]There is [G]still time.
Old
Sarge.
All right, you joker[C]s, we are going [G]to build weapons,
I mean weapons designed to kill.
[C]He holds up a flint[G]lock rifle,
not designed to blow up in your face and not work when
it rains and only kill one [C]enemy at a time
[G]at 50 feet [C]if the wind is [G]right.
We have iron ore and we have time.
[C]Sure
Sir
William is on his way with his red[G]coats.
By the [C]time he gets here [F]we'll be ready
for his red[G]coats.
Now the first step in inventing anything new is
to forget what you know already.
Forget everything you know about springs, triggers,
machine -made parts, and concentrate
on firepower.
power, how to get the most killing power
from where you are to where they [F]are.[G]
Look at what the enemy does not have,
the thing [F]they don't have that is the [G]easiest
for you to build.
Any of you jokers know what that is?
Well, I'll tell you, boys,
it's a firecrack[G]er.
Six [G]hundred years of firearms and t[D]hey never
learned to use a firecracker.
By that I mean an exploding projectile, whether thrown by [G]hand,
propelled from a launcher,
fired from a cannon, or dropped from a plane,
whether the explosive charge is black powder
or atomic fission.
600 years of cannonballs,
and did it ever occur to them to have a cannonball that explodes
on contact?
Like I say, they never
learned to use the firecracker.