Border Guards chords by Geoff Oelsner

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Verse 1
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On  a winter night in 1969
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On a grey German train bound east
through snow -laden pines
Dawn was a long way off
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and we were dozing, rocking along
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In time till the train came
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to a sudden stop
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On the East German border line
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There was a blast of wind
and the door crashed open
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and a harsh light broke our eyes
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Three soldiers filed down the aisle,
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grabbing passports as a baby cried
One passenger was led away
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by a soldier about my age and size
Gripping his gun
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and his young face held so hard
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Border guards, let us pass
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Border guards, let us go free at last
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Border guards,
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between countries
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Between you and me
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The doors are blocked and barred
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by border guards
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Well, they never  could talk
when he got that way
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Stony -faced and frozen -eyed,
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she tried her best to hold him close
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Find the magic words
that would thaw the ice
But in the end she warned him,
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we can't go on
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If you don't try to break
through those glacier walls
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And find your way to the sun outside
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Scattered
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around their last battlefield
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were crumpled sheets
and cast -off clothes
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She stepped out of bed and into a dress
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and was down the stairs
to the streets below
He was lying there dreaming
that she'd untied the line
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and was casting off as he dreamed on go
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She rode away into the fog
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as the cold just fell and he awoke
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To Border Guards,
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won't you let us pass
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Border Guards, let us go free at last
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Border Guards, between countries,
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between you and me
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The doors are blocked and barred
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by the Border Guards
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so
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Now in Berlin, November 1989
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You can see this scene
through the eyes of a teenage
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friend of mine
From the crack of dawn,
people danced on the wall
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He said the pickaxes swung
as they danced in time
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Chipping away at the rocks and mortar
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on the East German border line
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Someday when all the walls are down
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and the soldiers all come home again
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And the lovers unite,
don't have to fight on
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the battle lines
Between the women and men,
and the young can dance
all over the world
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And the mind and the eyes
of the world open and
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there's a natural order
No need for borders
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and we'll all be friends, but until then
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Border guards, won't you let us pass?
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Border Guards, let us go free at last
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Border Guards, between countries,
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between you and me
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The doors are blocked and barred by
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Border Guards, won't you let us pass
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Border guards, let us go free at last
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Border guards,
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between countries
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Between you and me
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The doors are blocked and barred
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By border guards
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