The Ballad Of James Bates chords by
Rebel Son
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Key: A major
Verse 1
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A 16 -year -old Southern boy
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C

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named Bates marches along in line
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To the capital in Columbia
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C
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where his outfit is a sign
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And once there he falls ill
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many miles from his home
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C

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But he stayed and worked
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D

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his post anyway
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Until the typhoid fever
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took his life away
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He fell in the defense of the Carolina land
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where he was from
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And on Ju ly the 4th of 62
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another hero he'd become
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And up on the hill in Graniteville,
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Em
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a tall, proud tombstone still stands
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C
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Over a sixteen -year -old boy
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Who died a sixteen -year -old man

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C F D Em

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