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The Cruel Legacy of Christopher Columbus

from Crossroads of Galahad by Austin Moffa

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I hope that I am part of the last generations forced to grow up lionizing Christopher Columbus. To think back on the misinformation I was fed in my grade-school years is a great source of frustration. I wrote this song in 2019 and abandoned it, thinking it was too verbose and unsingable but when I came back to it in 2021 and put it to a melody it quickly became one of my favorite original compositions.

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Columbus was a sailor
in the 15th century
he sailed under the spanish crown
but was born in Italy
he went in search of Asia
and he found it, so he claimed
but the whole true awful story
is one of blood and shame

when his ships first settled
he strode upon the land
the natives went to meet him
with hopeful, outstretched hands
and to his mind a thought came
"these natives are too at ease
with my men and my rifles
I will rule them as I please"

and so he ruled over them cruelly
demanding riches from the tribes
and those who failed to pay him
were dismembered and left to die
and those who resisted him
he fed them to his dogs
his men would rape and murder
dash babies skulls on rocks

for fun, with those they captured
they'd try to cleave them in two
even the priests who traveled with him
condemned him as a monster too
and so these tribes of millions
before Columbus arrived
dwindled down to hundreds
in less than five years time

and so in 1500
as he governed and sold slaves
his men shackled and deposed him
and was taken back to Spain
and there he was imprisoned
for tyranny and genocide
and though the king later released him
he shortly after died

Columbus was a sailor
in the 15th century
he murdered millions of natives
that's his legacy

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from Crossroads of Galahad, released May 3, 2021
Guitar and Vocals - Austin Moffa
Written by - Austin Moffa

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Austin Moffa Fairfax, Virginia

Austin Moffa is a musician based out of Fairfax, VA. He has previously released 10 industrial/ambient albums under the pseudonym "ROZKOL". Moffa was born and grew up in a small Pennsylvanian town along the Allegheny Mountain Range.

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