The Big Parade chords by 10, 000 Maniacs
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Verse 1
(E minor) (D major) (G major) (D major) (E minor) (G major) Detroit (D major) to D.C. (E minor) (C major) night train,
(D major) Capitol, parts (A minor) East.
(G major) Lone young (D major) man takes a seat. (E minor)
(G major) And by the (D major) rhythm of the rails, (E minor) (G major)
Reading (D major) all his mother's mail (E minor) from a (C major) city boy
(D major) in a jungle town (A minor) (G major) postmarked (D major) Saigon. (E minor)
(G major) He'll go (C major) live his mother's dream, (G major)
join the slowest parade (C major) he'll (D major) ever see.
Her weight of sor (C major) rows carried
long (D major) and carried far. (A minor)
(G major) "Take these, (A minor) Tommy, to The Wall." (E minor)
Verse 2
(E minor) Metro line to the Mall site (D major) with a
(G major) tour of Japanese.
He's (E minor) wandering and lost until a (G major) vet in worn fatigues
takes him (C major) down to (G major) where they be (A minor) long. (G major)
Near a sol (D major) dier, (E minor) an ex-Marine with with a
(G major) tattooed (D major) dagger and (E minor) eagle trembling,
He bites his (C major) lip beside a
(D major) widow breaking (A minor) down.
She takes her (G major) Purple Heart,
(D major) makes a fist, (E minor) strikes The Wall.
(G major) All come to live (C major) a dream, (G major)
to join the slowest parade (C major) they'll ever (D major) see.
Their weight of sor (C major) rows carried long (D major) and carried far, (A minor)
taken (G major) (A minor) to The Wall. (E minor)
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Verse 3
It's (E minor) 40 paces to the year
(G major) that he was slain.
His (E minor) hand's slipping down The Wall
(D major) for it's (G major) slick with rain.
(C major) How would life have (G major) ever been the same (A minor) (G major) if
this wall (C major) had carved (G major) in it one less (A minor) name? (G major)
But for (E minor) Christ's sake,
he's been dead (D major) (G major) over 20 years.
He (E minor) leaves the letters asking, "Who caused (G major) my mother's tears,
was it (C major) Washington (G major) or the Viet Con (A minor) g?"
(G major) Slow de (D major) liberate (E minor) steps are involved.
He (G major) takes them away (D major) from the black (E minor) granite wall toward
the (C major) other monument (D major) s so white and clean.
(A minor)
Verse 4
(G major)
O, Po (D major) tomac, what you've seen. (E minor)
(C major) Abraham (D major) had his war (A minor) too,
but (G major) an honest war.
(A minor) Or so it's taught in school.
The Big Parade
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