Tonart: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Killing machines, and just 18 years
Her vital component,
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the country's bloody gears of war
Exhausted, terrified,
hard up in the trenches
The fingers stiffen as a bloody
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stench of death is all around
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Dead men stare from the grounds
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G
A bayonet is a weapon
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Worth the work in blood at either end
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G
Flowers bloomed in the glory
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Don't sign up for war, my friend
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G
Become a statistic
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Cannon fodder in the answer
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G
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No king, no Kaiser, no war
In another lifetime, another battle zone
He fires a round of bullets
as an enemy of circumstance
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C
Throws a stone to defend his home
Signed up from a schoolyard,
sent through foreign lands
Tossed in a situation he
never comprehends
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Never fully understands
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And trained to kill a man
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G
Did they tell you this was his story?
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When they gave you a career
Heard that they sent you on
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G
Adventures and glory
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But you were shooting a child in here
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They put a gun in a boastful boy's hand
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C
And tried to make him a military man
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G
C
But he's not toy soldier anymore
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But it still shoots a kill
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C
Goes on Again
And by the time that you
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C
You're a Cannon machine
Interlude 1
Of war
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Verse 2
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G
The bayonet is a weapon
I'd rather have flowers
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blossomed in their glory
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C
Don't sign up for war,
my friend
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G
Can it become a statistic?
C
Cannon fodder in the end
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G
Serve no king, no Kaiser, no war
Outro 1
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