Tonart: E minor
Intro 1
Em
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Em
Csus2
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Em
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Em
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Em
Verse 1
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Granddaddy fought on the Northern Seine
Em
A witness to the ghost
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G
of Charlemagne
Am
Bm
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The northern lights saw the Holy Ghost
D
Am
G
Drove him out of the bunker
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D
toward a German host
Em
C
Mustard gas tore his lungs apart
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Em
But he was driven
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G
by a hero's heart
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Bm
He told my daddy and
Csus2
daddy told my son
D
Am
Bm
How the First World War
Csus2
C
Csus2
G
was won
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G
On the bodies of a hundred friends
Em
C
Lay broken hearts that victory cannot mend
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Am
Bm
For God, for country,
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D
and for a tale to tell
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Bm
Turned their youth into
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D
their time in hell
Em
Turned their youth into their
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G
Em
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G
Am
time in hell
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D
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My father played the Pacific state
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Em
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G
On the tide of his nation's rate
Am
C
Struck by a call to arms by infamy
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Am
Got the job done,
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came home and made me
Em
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G
Never spoke about it when I asked
Em
But mama said he killed more
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G
than granddaddy had
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C
They hardly slept through any given night
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Am
Bm
C
Without dreaming about the sight
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C
G
Of the bodies of a hundred friends
Em
Of broken hearts that
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G
victory cannot mend
Am
Bm
C
For God, for country, for tale to tell
D
Am
Bm
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D
Turn their youth into their time in hell
Em
C
Turn their youth into their time
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Em
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G
Am
in hell
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D
Em
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I've been a fighter since I was a child
Em
C
My fists hard and my spirit wild
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Am
C
My war came in a different way
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Am
I didn't want to go and
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Em
While up in Winnipeg
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I had to change my name
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Em
My daddy swore he'd
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G
never say my name again
Am
C
A hero's son of a hero's son
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Am
C
Turned away and was forgotten
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C
G
Among the bodies of a hundred men
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Am
Bm
C
D
Forgot the country for a tale to tell
Am
Bm
C
Turned our youth into our time in hell
D
Em
C
G
Em
C
Turned my youth into my time in hell
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D
When mama fought her
war in that cancer ward
C
I came home to hold her hand
that big front door
C
Hugged my wife and my son, Dan
Am
As if I were the boy I was before
Em
C
The night my mama died
We swore
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On the bodies of a hundred friends
Em
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G
Inside the differences you try to mend
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Bm
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For God, for country, for mama as well
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Bm
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D
To leave the time behind as our time in hell
Em
To leave it all behind as our
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Em
time in hell
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Am
Bm
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D
For God, for country, for tale to tell
Am
Bm
To leave the past behind
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D
as our time in hell
Em
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G
And leave it all behind as I drive in hell
Em
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