King's Shilling chords by
The Wakes

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Key: C major

Intro 1

Verse 1
C C 
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Killing machines, and just 18 years
Her vital component,
F F 
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the country's bloody gears of war
C C 
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For long years at war
Exhausted, terrified,
hard up in the trenches
The fingers stiffen as a bloody
F F 
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stench of death is all around
C C 
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Dead men stare from the grounds
F F 
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G G 
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A bayonet is a weapon
C C 
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Worth the work in blood at either end
F F 
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G G 
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Flowers bloomed in the glory
C C 
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Don't sign up for war, my friend
F F 
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G G 
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Become a statistic
C C 
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Cannon fodder in the answer
F F 
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G G 
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C C 
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No king, no Kaiser, no war
In another lifetime, another battle zone
He fires a round of bullets
as an enemy of circumstance
F F 
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C C 
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Throws a stone to defend his home
Signed up from a schoolyard,
sent through foreign lands
Tossed in a situation he
never comprehends
F F 
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Never fully understands
C C 
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And trained to kill a  man
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G G 
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Did they tell you this was his story?
C C 
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When they gave you a career
Heard that they sent you on
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G G 
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Adventures and glory
C C 
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But you were shooting a child in here
F F 
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They put a gun in a boastful boy's hand
G G 
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C C 
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And tried to make him a military man
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G G 
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C C 
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But he's not toy soldier anymore
F F 
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And they call it trans
G G 
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Infernable skills
C C 
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But it still shoots a kill
F F 
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And the cycle
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C C 
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Goes on Again
And by the time that you
F F 
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Turn eighteen
G G 
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C C 
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You're a  Cannon machine
F F 
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Just a pawn
G G 
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On the chessboard

Interlude 1

Of war

Verse 2
F F 
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G G 
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The bayonet is a weapon
C C 
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with a working mind
I'd rather have flowers
F F 
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blossomed in their glory
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C C 
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Don't sign up for war,
my friend
F F 
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G G 
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Can it become a statistic?
C C 
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Cannon fodder in the end
F F 
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G G 
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Serve no king, no Kaiser, no war

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