Forty Years Ago chords by John Williamson
Verse 1
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A Digger
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A digger stands at the end of the street
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His rifle upside down
He died when a woman
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could walk alone
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Anywhere in town
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If she's not safe in years of peace
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Why did he go to war?
What was the purpose?
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What was the glory?
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What was he fighting for?
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Yes, sometimes this world
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worries me,
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Sometimes it makes me cry.
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Then one day more is one day closer
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To the day I die.
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And I think I'll leave it all behind,
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I've had enough to say.
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Go back to nature, live in the forest,
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before they take it away.
Now I'm no pauper,
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I don't believe,
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I've known a poor man's day.
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But I'm still hungry to know
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the reason why I came this way
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Was it to learn that I can't buy
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the peace I used to know
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When I was just a little boy,
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forty years ago
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But if I can learn from foolish ways
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Then I must surely grow
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The light within is waiting
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for the chance to glow
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And I will keep on searching
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until the day I know
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The peace I knew as a little boy
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forty years ago
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Forty Years Ago
John Williamson
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