Tonart: A major
Verse 1
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
why were you the one?
D
All the years of growing up
C
G
are wasted now and gone
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
G
Verse 2
Am
Well the sun was hot and the air was heavy
A
Am
as the marching men came by
G
And you ran to the door to watch them pass
and you asked the soldiers "Why?"
Am
And the sound of the steel and the
A
blackboot's heel was pounding in your head
Am
G
And your freedom's past,
D
they have come at last with the blessings of the dead
Verse 3
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
why were you the one?
D
All the years of growing up are
C
G
wasted now and gone
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
C
G
just what did you do?
Verse 4
G
Am
In the col lege square they were standing
there with the flag and with the drum
G
And the whispered word as the young ones stirred
was "Now at last they've come"
Am
And the air was still with the lonely
thrill of now the hour is near
G
And the smell of sweat was better yet
D
than the aw ful stench of fear
Verse 5
C
G
why were you the one?
D
All the years of growing up are
C
G
wasted now and gone
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
G
Verse 6
Am
Through the air the shout as you all ran out
was "Why are these things done?"
G
And you stood and you stared but no one
cared for another campus bum
Am
And your songs were dead and the hymns
instead were to the burning pyre
G
And the words of youth,
D
like love and truth, just ashes in the fire
Verse 7
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
why were you the one?
D
All the years of growing up are
C
G
wasted now and gone
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
G
Verse 8
D
Am
Did you throw the stone at the men alone
D
with their bayonets fixed for hire?
C
G
Did you doubt that they would, say no one could,
did you scream when they opened fire?
Am
As the square ran red and your bloodstain spread
and the darkness 'round you grew
G
Through the fear and the pain did you call
D
the name of the man you never knew?
Verse 9
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
why were you the one?
D
All the years of growing up are
C
G
wasted now and gone
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
did you feel the burn of the bullets as they flew?
G
D
Hey Sandy, hey Sandy,
C
G
just what did you do?
C
G
just what did you do?
D
G
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