Biography:
The Nightwatchman is the solo project of American musician Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Street Sweeper Social Club). Morello began performing as The Nightwatchman in 2003 (with some album covers showing Tom Morello The Nightwatchman or Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman).
Morello has explained, "The Nightwatchman is my political folk alter ego. I've been writing these songs and playing them at open mic nights with friends for some time.
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Other songs:
- Battle Hymns
- Garden Of Gethsemane
- House Gone Up In Flames
- Maximum Firepower
- Midnight In The City Of Destruction
- One Man Revolution
- Solidarity Forever
- Union Song
- Alone Without You
- Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine
- Branding Iron
- Californias Dark
- Dark Clouds Above
- God Help Us All
- Gone Like Rain
- King Of Hell
- Lazarus On Down
- Let Freedom Ring
- Night Falls
- No One Left
- Rise To Power
- Saint Isabelle
- Save The Hammer For The Man
- Shake My Shit
- The Fabled City
- The Iron Wheel
- The King Of Hell
- The Lights Are On In Spidertown
- Union Town
- Whatever It Takes
- World Wide Rebel Songs
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Tuning: Half-step down
[Intro]
Em - A - D - Em - A
[Verse]
D Bm A D
I hurt the gentlest souls, I robbed my wife and son
D D/C# Bm A Bm
I turned my back on troubles, troubles I'd begun
D Bm A D
I cut a swath of pain and loss in the hallways of my home
D D/C# Bm A Bm
In the quiet of my room I know the things I've done
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I was driven from the city, in the wilderness I stand
In the cleansing rain in silence, I made my battle plan
Alone I marched towards freedom, leaving footprints across the land
With the vow that's left unspoken, save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I leaned against the hot and bothered wind beneath a hateful rain
Politics, apocalypse start to look the same
For the pasts of my redemption will mean the end of many things
The ransom for my soul the blood of generals and kings
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I was driven from the city, in the wilderness I stand
In the cleansing rain in silence, I made my battle plan
I will whisper words of freedom, I will swing hard as I can
Lord knows the time has come and save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
Oh, save the hammer for the man
Gotta save the hammer for the man
I will whisper words of freedom, I'll swing hard as I can
Save the hammer for the man, for the man
[Outro]
I will whisper words of freedom
I'll swing hard as I can
[Intro]
Em - A - D - Em - A
[Verse]
D Bm A D
I hurt the gentlest souls, I robbed my wife and son
D D/C# Bm A Bm
I turned my back on troubles, troubles I'd begun
D Bm A D
I cut a swath of pain and loss in the hallways of my home
D D/C# Bm A Bm
In the quiet of my room I know the things I've done
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I was driven from the city, in the wilderness I stand
In the cleansing rain in silence, I made my battle plan
Alone I marched towards freedom, leaving footprints across the land
With the vow that's left unspoken, save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I leaned against the hot and bothered wind beneath a hateful rain
Politics, apocalypse start to look the same
For the pasts of my redemption will mean the end of many things
The ransom for my soul the blood of generals and kings
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Verse]
I was driven from the city, in the wilderness I stand
In the cleansing rain in silence, I made my battle plan
I will whisper words of freedom, I will swing hard as I can
Lord knows the time has come and save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
Save the hammer for the man, save the hammer for the man
G D
It's the calling of the wretched
A Bm
It's the rising of the damned
A Bm
Save the hammer for the man
[Chorus]
Oh, save the hammer for the man
Gotta save the hammer for the man
I will whisper words of freedom, I'll swing hard as I can
Save the hammer for the man, for the man
[Outro]
I will whisper words of freedom
I'll swing hard as I can
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