Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
G#m
C#
G#m
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G#m
F#
G#m
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F#
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Verse 1
C#
G#m
of the war
I up and joined the army back
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G#m
At At At sixteen,
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C#
G#m
I just had to be a man at any cost
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G#m
I vo lunteered for Vietnam,
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G#m
F#
where I got my leg shot off
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C#
that said "who's more a man
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D#m
G#m
worth dyin' for?"
Verse 2
G#m
C#
They had me standing on the front line
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D#m
on the front line
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G#
C#
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when
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F#
C#
Verse 3
G#m
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G#m
They gave me a uniform
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G#m
and a tiny salty pill
To stop the big urge I might have
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G#m
for the wrong kind of thrill
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G#m
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They put a gun in my hand and
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said "shoot until he's dead"
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G#m
F#
I'm your friend" echoes through your head
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C#
should take another's life
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D#m
life has no price, no
Verse 4
G#m
C#
They had me standing on the front line
G#m
G#
G#m
They had me standing
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C#
G#m
on the front line
They had me standing on
But now I stand at the back of the line
G#m
F#
when it comes to gettin' ahead
Verse 5
A#m
F#
G#
Another war is in the brewing
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D#m
C#
But what about the lives of yesterday?
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D#m
that have been ruined?
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G#m
C#
My niece is a hooker and my nephew's a junkie,
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too
C#
But they say I have no right to tell them
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C#
G#m
how they should do
They laugh and say quit "braggin' 'bout
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the war you should have never been in"
But my mind is so brainwashed I'd
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G#m
F#
probably go back and do it again
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C#
parading my purple heart
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F#
D#m
With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop,
G#m
no
Verse 6
C#
D#m
the front line
C#
D#m
G#m
front line
G#
C#
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when
G#m
F#
C#
it comes to gettin' ahead
Verse 7
C#
D#m
G#m
front line
G#
G#m
They had me standing on the
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D#m
C#
G#m
front line
G#m
C#
But now I stand at the back of the line
G#m
F#
when it comes to gettin' ahead
Verse 8
C#
G#m
on the front line
G#m
C#
G#m
on the front line
G#
G#m
C#
They had me standing on the front line
G#m
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead
Outro 1
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