Front Line chords by Stevie Wonder

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Intro 1

I am a veteran

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of the war
I up and joined the army back
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in nineteen-sixty-four
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At At At sixteen,
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I just had to be a man at any cost
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I vo lunteered for Vietnam,
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where I got my leg shot off
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I recall a quote form a movie
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that said "who's more a man
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Than a man with a reason that's
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worth dyin' for?"

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Verse 2

They had me standing on the front line

They had me standing

on the front line

They had me standing on the front line

But now I stand at the back of the line when

it comes to gettin' ahead

Verse 3
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They gave me a uniform
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and a tiny salty pill
To stop the big urge I might have
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for the wrong kind of thrill
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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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But it's hard to kill when "please,
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I'm your friend" echoes through your head
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Brought up in church taught no man
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should take another's life
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But   then put in the jungle where
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life has no  price, no

Verse 4
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They had me standing on the front line
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They had me standing
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on the front line
They had me standing on
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the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line
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when it comes to gettin' ahead
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Back

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in the world, the paper reads today
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Another war is in the brewing
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But what about the lives of yesterday?
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And the many happy families
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that have  been ruined?
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My niece is a hooker  and my nephew's a junkie,
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too
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But they say I have no right to tell them
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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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probably go back and do it again
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I walk the neighborhood,
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parading my purple heart
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With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop,
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no

Verse 6
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They had me standing on
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the front line
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They had me standing on the
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front line
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They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when
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it comes to gettin' ahead

Verse 7
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They had me standing on the
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front line
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They had me standing on the
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front line
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They had me standing on the front line
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But now I stand at the back of the line
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when it comes to gettin' ahead

Verse 8
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Would you believe I do?
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They had me standing
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on the front line
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They had me standing
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on the front line
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They had me standing on the front line
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But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin' ahead

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