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Last Stand chords by
Harry Chapin
Harry Chapin

N/A
Verse 1
D
G
D
A
G
A

It
D

used to be

that old John Wayne
G

Would fight the good fight once again,
D

Find the strength to bear the pain,
A
G
A

Stand up til he'd finally fall.
Verse 2
D

But now it's not just movie time,
G

And now it's you that's on the line.
D

And now it's you that's going to find
A

If you can stand at all.
Verse 3
G
A

So you circle all the wagons
Bm
F#m

And you hide behind the trees,
G

And you try to find some cour
A
D

age on your knees.
G
A

When you heard the sound of taps played
Bm
F#m

By the one man band,
G

You knew this is where
A

you'd have to make
G

Your last stand.
Interlude 1
D
G
D
G

D

Verse 4
D

And so, my friends, the last stand,
G

The last song from the last band,
D

The last note from the last man,
A

But you gave it all you can.
Verse 5
D

The cards came down to the last deal,

G

You're a starving man

at his last meal,
D

And the movie's rolled down

to the last real,
A

It's got an ending you never planned.
Verse 6
D

She's left you now, and so it seems,
G

You've tumbled down the last stream,

D

And you've found out

that the final dream,
A

Can disappear so fast.
Verse 7
D

Watch it all just fade away, boy,
G

It came down to the last day,

D

And then the last out,

and then the last play,
A

And you're alone at last.
Verse 8
G
A

So you circle all the wagons
Bm
F#m

And you hide behind the trees,
G
A

And you try to find some courage
D

on your knees.
G
A

When you heard the sound of taps played
Bm
F#m

By the one man band,
G

You knew this is where
A

you'd have to make
G

Your last stand.
Interlude 2
D
G
D
G

D

Verse 9
D

Well, so it was late last night,
G

She left on the final flight
D

You watched as the last light
A

Went out there in your soul.
Verse 10
D

Took your look around the top,
G

For now you face the final drop.
D

You'll go down fast and you won't stop,
A
D

You found a very deep hole.
Verse 11
G

Say you're off on the last ride,

Remembering how she last cried,
D

And you know that love had long last died
A

In silence, not in pain.
Verse 12
D

You lost your last, your last race
G

Stumbled in at last place,
D

Too late to find the one last face
A

Waiting in the rain.
Verse 13
G

So you circle all the wagons
A
Bm
F#m

And you hide behind the trees,
G

And you try to find some cour
A
D

age on your knees.
G

When you heard the sound
A

of taps played
Bm
F#m

By the one man band,
G

You knew this is where
A

you'd have to make
G

Your last stand.
Outro 1
D
G
D
G

D

G
D
G

D
G
D
G

D
G
D

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  • G

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • F#m

    2

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