White Hammer

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In the year 1486 the Malleus first appeared,

 

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designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears:

 

D Em G Bb/F(+g) F

prescribing tortures to kill the Black A - arts;

 

and the Hammer struck hard.

 

 

G(+d) F C G

Malleus Maleficarum slaughtered and tortured

 

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all those under suspicion, as the Inquisistion ordered -

 

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burning black hearts and innocents alike, killing the ma - ad;

 

such was the power the Hammer had.

 

 

Though Hexenhammer was intended to slay only evil,

 

fear and anger against magic overspilled:

 

they also killed those of the White.

 

 

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So for two centuries and more they tried to slay

 

G(+d) F

both the Black and the White Arts -

 

but spirits override pain.

 

D Em G Bb/F(+g) F

For every one that the torture took, two were hid secu - re,

 

and so the craft (yes it) en - dured.

 

 

 

 

Love and hate lived on in the face of fear,

 

Hexenhammer's force died,

 

and the real power became clear:

 

 

G(+d) F C G

White Hammer no more is beaten; now it begins to beat,

 

G(+d) F

and the Grey, once oppressor,

 

now, at good hands, faces defeat.

 

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And the Black, too, shall bow down to the power abo - ove;

 

Black hate beats Grey

 

but supreme is

 

the White Hammer of Lo-ove, the White Hammer of Lo-ove.

 

{ G#7 C# G# F# } x2

 

{ F7 Bb F D# } x2

 

 

 

Improvisation in D follows, which finally calms down. Then, the organ starts

playing its omnious section.

 

 

 

Instruments enter, and lead this theme until the very last part of the section,

which is slightly different.