Nineteen chords by April Kry

SimplifiedG · D · Em · C

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
19, number on his back,
C 
voted captain of his high
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school football team
Em 
Took us all the way to state,
C 
got a scholarship to play
G 
down in Tennessee
C 
He could run, he could duck,
he could throw,
G 
D 
he could go like you've never seen
Nineteen
G 
Em 
But on the day those twin
C 
towers came down,
G 
his whole world turned around
Em 
He told them all, y 'all,
C 
can't play ball,
G 
there's a war on now
C 
So he marched right in
G 
with a few good men
D 
G 
and joined the Marines at 19
C 
G 
Yeah, he's a bowling egg store
D 
He might have carried your bags
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at the grocery store
C 
Now he's somebody's son
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in a hole with a gun
D 
in some foreign land
Em 
Tryin' to hold on to his Amer
C 
ican dream
Nineteen
G 
Em 
If there's a sniper out there
C 
in the dark somewhere
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And a soldier's down
Em 
C 
We need someone who can duck and run
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I'm go get him out
C 
Wanna one good man
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Raise his hand
D 
Take one for the team
G 
How about you, 19?
C 
G 
Yeah, here's a boy next door
D 
He might have carried your bags
G 
At the grocery store
C 
Now he's somebody's son
G 
In a hole with a gun
D 
In some foreign land
Tryin' to hold on
Em 
Where's American
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G 
Dreams?
Nineteen!
Oh
Em 
They brought him home today
C 
G 
With a big parade down on Main Street
Em 
Gave him a purple heart
C 
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A silver star, a soldier gave a speech
C 
Said he could catch,
he could throw, he could run
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D 
He's the one that rescued me
C 
He could have played for Tennessee
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He was 19
Number 19
Yeah, he was only 19 you