Key: F major
Verse 1
D
Bm
D
Not with deserters
G
D
from the battle
Bm
G
D
That tears my land do I belong
To their coarse praise I do not listen
Bm
G
D
They shall not have from me one song
Verse 2
G
D
Poor exile, you are like a prisoner to me
Or one upon a bed of sickness
Bm
A
Dark your road, oh wanderer
G
A
D
Of wormwood smacks your alien breath
Verse 3
Bm
D
G
D
Our lives, the last of youth we throw
Who in the years behind us never
Bm
D
G
D
Sought to evade a single blow
Verse 4
Or one upon a bed of sickness
Of wormwood smacks your
G
A
D
alien breath
Verse 5
Bm
G
D
No hour will need apology
No people in the world are prouder
Bm
D
G
D
More tearless simpler than are we
G
Poor
Verse 6
C
G
D
exile, you are like a prisoner to me
Or one upon a bed of sickness
G
A
D
Of wormwood smacks your alien breath
G
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