Some Mother's Son chords by The Kinks

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Some mother's son
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lies in a field
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Someone has killed some
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mother's son today
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Head blown up by some soldier's gun
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While all the mothers stand an d wait
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Some mother's son ain't
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coming home today
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Some mothers son ain't got no grave
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Two soldiers fighting in a trench
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One soldier glances up to see the sun
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And dreams of games he played
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when he was young
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And then his friend calls out his name
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It stops his dream and as
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he turns his head
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A second later he is dead
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Some mother's son lies in a field
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Back home they put his
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picture in  a frame
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But all dead soldiers look the same
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While all the parents stand an d wait
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To meet their children coming
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home from school
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Some mother's son is lying dead
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Somewhere someone is crying
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Someone is trying to be so brave
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But still the world keeps turning
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Though all the children have gone away
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Some mother's son lies in a field
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But in his mother's eyes
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he looks the same
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As on the day he went away
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They put his picture on the wall
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They put flowers in the pic   ture frame
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Some mothers memory remains