Soldiers chords by Graeme Connors

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Verse 1
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D 
He
recalls late in the 60s
How he used to get so angry
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D 
At the hippies demonstrating
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against the war in Vietnam
He was raised an Eisenhower,
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A 
hated flower power
So all the way with LBJ
D 
he could easily understand
He was proud to serve his country
and the cause of truth and justice
Though now and then
he wondered
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when the killing would all cease
But he was sent to fight,
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A 
believing he was in the right
To dedicate the best years of his life
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to win a war for peace
And he remembers all the stories
the old men used to tell him
Of their days in the South Pacific
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back in 1944
All the battles and the heroes,
the torpedoes and the zeroes
And how they thanked the Lord
D 
the day the A -bomb stopped it all
They'd been proud to serve their country
and the cause of truth and justice
Never doubting for a moment
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they were right in their belief
Cause they were out there
fighting for a war to end all other wars
And give the best years of their lives
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so the world could live in peace
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Now he listens to his grandkids
D 
telling him any war is wrong
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They don't see the future
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down the barrel of a gun
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They believe that in their lifetime
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G 
a change is gonna come
Em 
And the power of words
A 
will surely save the world
D 
Then he reads the morning papers
and he watches late night news
And he sees the truth
behind all these conflicting
A 
points of view
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A 
From Mexico, North Africa,
Iraq or Afghanistan
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A 
If you're talking to a  bullet,
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D 
the power of words won't have a chance
And as long as there's a country
and a cause of truth and justice
Sometimes someone somewhere's
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gonna die for their beliefs
Though it don't seem right,
it's just a cold hard fact of life
Where all soldiers call to fight
D 
the never -ending war for peace
A 
Though it don't seem right,
it's just the cold hard fact of life
Where all soldiers call to fight
D 
the never -ending war for peace
He recalls, late in the sixties,
how he used to get so angry
And the hippies demonstrated
A 
against the war in Vietnam
He was raised in Eisenhower,
he hated Flau -Pau
But you oughta pay the bounty
if you think he needs me