Key: G major•
Intro 1
G
Em
G
Em
Verse 1
G
Em
What can you see from your window?
G
Em
I can't see anything from mine
G
Em
Flags on the side the highway
C
G
D
And scripture on grocery store signs
G
Em
Maybe eighteen was too early
G
Em
Maybe thirty or forty is too
G
Em
Did you get your chance to make peace
with the man
C
G
D
Before he sent down his angels for you?
Chorus 1
Em
D
G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em
D
G
D
'cause that's all they know how to do
Em
Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D
Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 1
G
Em
G
Em
Verse 2
G
Em
Your wife said this all would be funny
G
Em
When you came back home in a week
C
G
D
In a bar or a tent by the creek
G
Em
Your baby would just about be here
G
Em
Your very last tour would be up
C
G
D
Drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups
Chorus 2
Em
D
G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em
D
G
D
American boys hate to lose
Em
Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D
Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 2
G
Em
G
Em
Verse 3
G
Em
The high school gymnasium's ready
G
Em
Full of flowers and old legionnaires
G
Em
Nobody showed up to protest
C
G
D
Just sniffle and stare
G
Em
There's red, white, and blue in the rafters
G
Em
And there's silent old men from the corps
C
G
D
To fight somebody's Hollywood war?
Chorus 3
Em
D
G
Nobody here could forget you
Em
D
G
D
You showed us what we had to lose
Em
Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D
Or sleeping in your dress blues
Outro 1
Em
Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
Or sleeping in your dress blues
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