Tonart: D major
Intro 1
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D
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Dsus4
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Verse 1
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In my own city,
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Dsus4
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where I come from
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I had a friend, we grew up as one
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Bm
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The best of our lives, we made a vow
Em
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Dsus4
To stick it out, some way, somehow
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Dsus4
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How many times
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we'd talk the night away
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to hit the road someday
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Asus4
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Asus4
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Bm
Em
How many things there was to see,
Asus4
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you're young and free
Dsus4
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Asus4
No he never had much fam ily
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Little brother and him and mama
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Asus4
made three
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Bm
Em
There was a time, there once was four,
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but he can't talk about
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Asus4
And then one day, a letter came
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And on that day, I knew right there,
F#m
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I wrote
Bm
Em
And called for Him to fight for us
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He said, I ain't scared,
Asus4
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but I knew He was
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He looks so young in his uniform
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G
Mama packed the trunk
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so old and warm
Bm
Em
It's a sad design, the Lord He weaves
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If it was His will,
Dsus4
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then it was meant to be
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A tear was his as he stood and waited
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Mama said, we love you son,
Bm
Em
Little brother he was, so proud of him
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Said when I grow up,
Interlude 1
I'm gonna be like him
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Bm
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Em
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Dsus4
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Verse 2
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It was a Sunday morning,
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Up the front porch cryin'
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with a telegram
Bm
The contents read, it was on a hill
Em
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It was an action, a boy was killed
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Mama shrunk and fell, said,
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And on her shoulder was little
Asus4
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Bm
I'll be alright,
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Thinking to herself,
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G
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he'll be eighteen soon
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To die so young, in an unknown land
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Where the shame of blood
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is on no one's hand
Bm
Em
And on whose heart will the guilt be bound
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The one who sent him out,
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the one who shot him down.
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He was 18, and he had to die.
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God knows I don't know why.
Bm
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Em
To be so young paid such a cost
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for what was gained for what was lost
You
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