Anthem For Doomed Youth chords by 10, 000 Maniacs
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Intro 1
(C major) (B minor) (G major) (A minor) (G major)
(C major) (B minor) (A minor) (G major)
Verse 1
For whom the (A minor) bells toll
When sentenced to (G major) die
The stuttering rifles (A minor)
Will stifle the (G major) cry
The monstrous (A minor) anger
The fear's rapid (G major) rattle
A desert in (A minor) ferno
Kids dying like (C major) cattle
(B minor) (A minor) (G major)
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Verse 2
(C major) Don't tell me
We're not (B minor) prepared (A minor)
I've seen today's (G major) marine
(C major) He's eighteen and he's (B minor) eager (A minor)
He can be quite (G major) mean
Verse 3
No mock'ries for (A minor) them
No prayers or (G major) bells
The demented (A minor) choirs
The wailing of (G major) shells
The boys holding (A minor) candles
On untraveled (G major) roads
The fear spreads like (A minor) fire
As shrapnel ex (C major) plodes
(B minor) (A minor) (G major)
Verse 4
(C major) I think it's wrong
To con (B minor) script our youth (A minor)
Against their will (G major)
(C major) When plenty of our cit (B minor) izenry (A minor)
Really like to (G major) kill
Interlude 1
(B minor) (A minor) (B minor) (A minor)
(B minor) (A minor) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor) (G major) (A minor)
(G major) (A minor) (C major) (B minor) (G major)
(A minor) (G major) (C major) (B minor)
(A minor) (G major)
Verse 5
What sign posts will (A minor) lead
To (G major) armageddon's fires
What bugles will (A minor) call them
From crowded grey (G major) shires
The women sit (A minor) quiet
With death on their (G major) minds
A slow dusk des (A minor) cending
The drawing of (C major) blinds
(B minor) (A minor) (G major)
Verse 6
(C major) Make the hunters all (B minor) line up
(A minor) It's their idea of (G major) fun
And (C major) let those be for (B minor) given
Who (A minor) never owned a gun (G major) (C major)
Was (B minor) it him or me
Or the (A minor) wailing of the dead (G major)
The (C major) laughing soldiers
(B minor) Cast their lots
And (A minor) you can cut (G major) the dread
Anthem For Doomed Youth
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