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south hill chords by
Tim Barry
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Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When my girl got pregnant well

I dropped right out of school

But there's no work in South Hill
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so what else could I do?

The recruiter's came- a- knocking
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when this whole damn thing began

They promised me a college education
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food and medicine

They said I wouldn't spend a dime

if I got deployed overseas

Plus Baghdad is safer now
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than old Washington, DC

So I signed that dotted line right quick
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and in a blink of an eye

I found myself at Fort Benning where
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I practiced forming lines

Well Fallujah became my home,

my comfort and my dread

The marines that came through first
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man they tore this place to shreds

With the sound of crushing Amtracs and
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the whine of their Humvee's
Verse 2
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Calling in them A- 10 air strikes man
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I wish I could have seen it

But when we got to town I

realized we were only legs

We do dismounted patrols we
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do searches and do raids

We hear the crack of small arms
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fire and the blast from IED's

We hurry up and wait,
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suck in dust and stay low key
Verse 3
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And I cannot stop this
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pounding in my head
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I thought we were doing right but that's not
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what folks back home have said
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Sometimes I can't tell which
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way is up or which is down

But I'm oddly at ease with
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this chaos all around
Verse 4
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Then one day out on patrol

doing time out in the heat

We were ordered to a neighborhood
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to talk to folks out on the street

To gather information on where
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some weapons may be stored

Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them
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off out of Fallujah and to the north

Well my platoon got lost and made

more then one wrong turn

We should have called in our position fast
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but we blamed each other first

Then we started taking sniper
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fire - god damn them all

We couldn't find the shooter no where

he had us pinned down one and all

Well friendies they caught up and we took

back that god damned street

But something wasn't right and
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I was feeling really weak

My adrenaline was high and I was
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scared and I could hardly breathe

I heard doc argue with the Sarg that
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morphine might kill me

That's the last thing I remember

that and heat and clear blue sky

And thinking about my girl back
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home and my daughters little eyes

I took that bullet in Fallujah and
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I'm laid up in Germany

And I'm headed back stateside to
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the care of Walter Reed
Verse 5
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And I cannot feel a thing below my waist
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Doc tried to help me man
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but it was too late
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Now I don't know who is
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right or who is wrong

But I'm fucked up and I
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want to go back home
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And I cannot stop this
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pounding in my head
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I thought we were doing right but that's
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not what folks back home have said
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Now I don't know which
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way is up or which is down
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But one day I'll stand firmly on the ground
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Yes one day I'll stand firmly on the ground

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • G

  • A

Capo: 2

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The original key of south hill by Tim Barry is E major.

The primary chords used in south hill are E, A, B.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like E, A, B, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of south hill is approximately 207 beats per minute.

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