Key: E minor
Intro 1
Em
C
G
Em
Csus2
G
Em
C
G
Em
C
G
Em
Verse 1
C
G
Granddaddy fought on the Northern Seine
C
G
of Charlemagne
Am
Bm
C
The northern lights saw the Holy Ghost
D
Am
G
Drove him out of the bunker
C
D
toward a German host
Em
C
Mustard gas tore his lungs apart
G
Em
But he was driven
C
G
by a hero's heart
Am
Bm
He told my daddy and
D
Am
Bm
How the First World War
Csus2
C
Csus2
G
was won
C
G
On the bodies of a hundred friends
Em
C
Lay broken hearts that victory cannot mend
G
Am
Bm
For God, for country,
C
D
and for a tale to tell
Am
Bm
Turned their youth into
C
D
their time in hell
C
G
Em
C
G
Am
time in hell
C
D
Em
C
My father played the Pacific state
G
Em
C
G
On the tide of his nation's rate
Am
C
Struck by a call to arms by infamy
D
Am
Got the job done,
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D
came home and made me
Em
C
G
Never spoke about it when I asked
C
G
than granddaddy had
Am
C
They hardly slept through any given night
D
Am
Bm
C
Without dreaming about the sight
G
C
G
Of the bodies of a hundred friends
C
G
victory cannot mend
Am
Bm
C
For God, for country, for tale to tell
D
Am
Bm
C
D
Turn their youth into their time in hell
Em
C
Turn their youth into their time
G
Em
C
G
Am
in hell
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D
Em
C
G
I've been a fighter since I was a child
Em
C
My fists hard and my spirit wild
G
Am
C
My war came in a different way
D
Am
I didn't want to go and
D
Em
While up in Winnipeg
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Em
My daddy swore he'd
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G
never say my name again
Am
C
A hero's son of a hero's son
D
Am
C
Turned away and was forgotten
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C
G
Among the bodies of a hundred men
G
Am
Bm
C
D
Forgot the country for a tale to tell
Am
Bm
C
Turned our youth into our time in hell
D
Em
C
G
Em
C
Turned my youth into my time in hell
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D
When mama fought her
war in that cancer ward
that big front door
Em
C
The night my mama died
We swore
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C
G
On the bodies of a hundred friends
Em
C
G
Inside the differences you try to mend
Am
Bm
C
D
For God, for country, for mama as well
Am
Bm
C
D
To leave the time behind as our time in hell
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G
C
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Em
time in hell
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G
Am
Bm
C
D
For God, for country, for tale to tell
Am
Bm
To leave the past behind
C
D
as our time in hell
Em
C
G
And leave it all behind as I drive in hell
Em
C
G
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