Hennie Van Saracen chords by 
Jeremy Taylor 
N/A
Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Am
F
G
C
Now the other day the
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G
postman came up to our front door
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Am
He said I've got a letter jong,
Dm
like you never had before
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C
Am
And when I torn it open
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G
The blood in my veins turned cold
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Am
It was my call- up pa pers
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I was eighteen years old
Verse 2
C
Am
I nearly died
Em
It's no lie
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C
'Cause at fighting I'm not so hot
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And my poor old lady
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G
Nearly fainted on the spot
Verse 3
C
Am
But my dad said he was proud
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G
To think that his own son
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Am
Was going to be a pil lar
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Of the nation
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Am
F
Verse 4
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C
Am
Now the next week I was called
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G
For a medical inspec tion
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Am
And after they had given me a
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G
thor ough examina tion
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Am
The doctor said, Juss,
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G
you're in the army, son
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Am
And des pite of my corns and flat feet
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G
C
They said I was A- one
Verse 5
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Em
Ag sis s man, I'm telling you,
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C
the next thing that I knew
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I was issued with a uniform
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G
Boots and rifle too
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But when they saw my ducky
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hairstyle
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G
They shoved me in the chair
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Am
And in twenty seconds flat
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G
C
They shaved off all my hair
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A
Verse 6
D
Bm
Oh, when I went back home
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A
To go and say good bye
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Bm
To mom and dad and boetie
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A
They all began to cry
D
But the hardest thing of all
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G
Was saying goodbye to
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my chick
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Bm
'Cause she's a lekker cherry
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A
D
and I digs her kinda kick
Verse 7
Bm
F#m
Now I took her to bioscope
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D
Be fore I went away
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But the only words
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A
That she could find to say
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Bm
G
Was, totsi ens Hennie, jy is 'n lekker ou
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D
Bm
But by the time you come back
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A
I'll be someone else's
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Bm
G
A
vrou
Verse 8
D
Bm
In my first weeks of training
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A
I nearly went in sane
D
Bm
They marched me all around the square
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A
Up and back again
Verse 9
D
Bm
They taught me how to kill a man
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A
They said it was no sin
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Bm
And soon I was the driver
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A
D
Of a five ton Sara cen
Verse 10
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F#m
One day outside Blikkiesdorp
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D
I got out of con trol
Bm
And I ended up in Bree street
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A
With my tank stuck up a pole
Verse 11
D
Bm
A traf fic cop came up to me
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A
And said as he scratched his ear
D
Bm
Where did you got a li cense
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A
D
To park that bladdy thing here?
Bm
Verse 12
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E
C#m
Well, I tried to ex plain
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B
When I got back to the sta tion
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C#m
But I wasn't cut out to fight
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B
against the army of libera tion
Verse 13
E
The commandant agreed
C#m
A
B
And as he put me on the train
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C#m
Said, you can push off home to Joburg
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Bm
E
And don't come back again
Verse 14
C#m
So now
I'm back home
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A
E
With mom and dad of course
C#m
And as we sits round the braai
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F#
B
Chewing boerewors
Verse 15
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C#m
My dad says, you're fam ous son
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B
And he laughs from his ear to his chin
E
'Cause you're known all over
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A
E
town as Hennie Van Saracen
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F#
Still got my ticket as Hennie Van Saracen
Outro 1
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E
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E
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ChordsC Am F G Dm...
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Am
F
G
Dm
Em
D
A
Bm
F#m
E
B
C#m
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C#
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