Key: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
D
G
D
Em
G
D
Em
C
Detroit to D.C. night train,
D
Am
Capitol, parts East.
G
D
Em
Lone young man takes a seat.
G
D
Em
G
And by the rhythm of the rails,
D
Em
C
Reading all his mother's mail from a city boy
D
Am
G
D
Em
in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.
G
C
G
He'll go live his mother's dream,
C
D
join the slowest parade he'll ever see.
D
Am
long and carried far.
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Am
Em
"Take these, Tommy, to The Wall."
Verse 2
Em
D
Metro line to the Mall site with a
Em
G
He's wandering and lost until a vet in worn fatigues
C
G
Am
G
takes him down to where they belong.
D
Em
Near a soldier, an ex-Marine with with a
G
D
Em
tattooed dagger and eagle trembling,
D
Am
widow breaking down.
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Em
makes a fist, strikes The Wall.
G
C
G
All come to live a dream,
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D
to join the slowest parade they'll ever see.
C
D
Am
Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried far,
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Am
Em
taken to The Wall.
Verse 3
D
G
for it's slick with rain.
C
G
Am
G
How would life have ever been the same if
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G
Am
G
this wall had carved in it one less name?
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G
he's been dead over 20 years.
Em
G
He leaves the letters asking, "Who caused my mother's tears,
C
G
Am
was it Washington or the Viet Cong?"
G
D
Em
Slow deliberate steps are involved.
G
D
Em
He takes them away from the black granite wall toward
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D
the other monuments so white and clean.
Am
Verse 4
G
D
Em
O, Potomac, what you've seen.
C
D
Am
Abraham had his war too,
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