Tonart: E minor•
Intro 1
Em
E
Em
A
Em
A
Em
E
Em
Verse 1
Em
Why
all these bugles crying
For squads of young men drilled
Am
To kill and to be killed
Em
Stood waiting by this train?
Verse 2
Em
Why the orders loud and hoarse?
Am
Why the engine's groaning cough
As it strains to drag us off
Verse 3
F
E
Bdim
Why crowds who sing and cry
E
C#dim
And shout and fling us flowers
F#
And trade their right for ours
Verse 4
A
The dove has torn her wings
D
so no more songs of love
A
We are not here to sing
Em
We're here to kill the dove
Verse 5
Em
Why has this moment come
When childhood has to die
A
Am
E
Am
When hope shrinks to a sigh
Em
And speech into a drum?
Verse 6
Em
Why are they pale and still
Am
Young boys trained overnight
Conscripts forced to fight
F
And dressed in gray to kill?
Verse 7
F
E
These rain clouds massing tight
Bdim
Em
This train load battle bound
C#dim
This moving burial ground
F#
B
A
Sent thundering toward the night
Verse 8
A
The dove has torn her wings
D
so no more songs of love
A
We are not here to sing
Em
We're here to kill the dove
Verse 9
Em
Why statues towering brave
Am
Above the last defeat
Old words and lies repeat
Em
Across the new made grave?
Verse 10
Em
Why the same still birth
Am
That victory always brought
These hours of glory bought
F
By men with mouths of earth?
Verse 11
F
E
Bdim
Dead ash without a spark
E
F#
Where cities used to be
For guns probe every light
B
And crush it in the dark
Verse 12
A
The dove has torn her wings
D
so no more songs of love
A
We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
Em
Verse 13
Em
And why your face undone
Am
With jagged lines of tears
That gave in those first years
Em
All peace I ever won?
Verse 14
Em
Your body in the gloom
Am
The platform fading back
Your shadow on the track
Verse 15
E
And why these days ahead
Bdim
When I must let you cry
C#dim
And live prepared to die
F#
B
As if our love were dead?
Verse 16
A
The dove has torn her wings so
A
We are not here to sing
Outro 1
We're here to kill the dove
Em
A
Em
Em
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