Back To The Barracks chords by The Zipheads

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well,
way back when,
since the days of old,
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The song was sung and the story was told,
Of the house of the land and
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the rising sun,
Of the south was lost and
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the west was won.
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They built the railroads, built the trains
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Cow boys, Indians swept the plains
When the winds blew hard
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and the rivers ran cold
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And all the streets were paved with gold
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Well the people came,
they came in droves
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Dirty hands and ragged clothes
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To plough the land and sow the seeds
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So the next generation
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might carry their creed
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It's doggy -dog and that's the truth
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It's an eye for an eye
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and a tooth for a tooth
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So don't look back and
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don't think twice
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Mark my words, take this advice
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Well, life's a change, life's the same
Life's a gamble, life's a game
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We know that we must survive
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whatever the cost
By the father, by the son,
by the sword and by the gun
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We will fight till every battle has been
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lost
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Well, way back when,
since the dawn of man
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We struggle for peace in a violent land
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Men and women all live and die
It's an endless quest for the
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reason why
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Yeah, I stood back and I kept score
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Of every battle and every war
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But the generals win and the soldiers lose
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And it's back to the barracks
and they march in twos
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One, two, three, four.
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One, two, three, four.
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One, two, three, four.
One, two.
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Where the wise men came,
they came in search.
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Build the temples, build the church.
People came to hear the
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prophet speak,
but they couldn't find
the answers that they seek.
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No.
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They fight for king
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and they fight for God.
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Fight for every inch of sod,
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but every soldier on every side
carried these words with
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him as he died. Yep.
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Well, life's a change, life's a same.
Life's a gamble, life's a game.
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We know that we must survive
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whatever the cost
By the father, by the son,
by the sword and by the gun
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We will fight till every battle has been lost
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Well, son, now I've had many lives
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Many children, many wives
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I've seen a thousand suns go down
And a new one rise
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as the world spins round
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There's many places I've called home
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Paris, London, Moscow, Rome
But in every place I ever go
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Well, I carry these words
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with my head hung
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Life's a change, life's the same,
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life's a gamble, life's a game,
you know that
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We must survive whatever the cost
By the father, by the son,
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by  the sword and by the gun
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We will fight till every
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battle has been lost
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Yeah, we'll fight till every
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battle has been lost
Yeah, we'll fight till the end,
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no matter the cost
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