The Big Parade

The Big Parade easy guitar chords by 10, 000 Maniacs

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  • Verse 1
    Detroit 
    to D.C. 
    night 
    train, 

    Capitol, 
    parts 
    East. 

    Lone 
    young 
    man 
    takes 
    a seat. 

    And 
    by 
    the 
    rhythm 
    of 
    the rails, 

    Reading 
    all 
    his mother's 
    mail 
    from a 
    city 
    boy 

    in 
    a jungle 
    town 
    postmarked 
    Sai
    gon. 

    He'll 
    go 
    live 
    his mother's 
    dream, 

    join 
    the slowest 
    parade 
    he'll 
    ever 
    see. 

    Her 
    weight 
    of sor
    rows 
    carried 

    long 
    and 
    carried 
    far. 

    "Take 
    these, 
    Tommy, 
    to 
    The Wall." 

    Verse 2
    Metro 
    line 
    to the 
    Mall 
    site 
    with a 

    tour 
    of Japanese. 

    He's 
    wandering 
    and lost 
    until 
    vet 
    in worn 
    fatigues 

    takes 
    him 
    down 
    to 
    where 
    they 
    be
    long. 

    Near 
    a sol
    dier, 
    an ex-Marine 
    with 
    with a 

    tattooed 
    dag
    ger 
    and 
    eagle 
    trembling, 

    He bites 
    his 
    lip 
    beside 

    widow 
    breaking 
    down. 

    She 
    takes 
    her 
    Purple 
    Heart, 

    makes a 
    fist, 
    strikes 
    The Wall. 

    All 
    come 
    to live 
    a dream, 

    to 
    join 
    the slowest 
    parade 
    they'll 
    ever 
    see. 

    Their 
    weight 
    of sor
    rows 
    carried 
    long 
    and 
    carried 
    far, 

    taken 
    to 
    The Wall. 

    Verse 3
    It's 
    40 paces 
    to 
    the year 

    that 
    he 
    was slain. 

    His 
    hand's 
    slipping 
    down 
    The Wall 

    for 
    it's 
    slick 
    with rain. 

    How 
    would life 
    have 
    ever 
    been 
    the same 
    if 

    this wall 
    had 
    carved 
    in 
    it 
    one 
    less 
    name? 

    But 
    for 
    Christ's 
    sake, 

    he's 
    been dead 
    over 
    20 years. 

    He 
    leaves 
    the letters 
    asking, 
    "Who caused 
    my 
    mother's 
    tears, 

    was 
    it 
    Washington 
    or 
    the Viet 
    Con
    g?" 

    Slow 
    de
    liberate 
    steps 
    are 
    involved. 

    He 
    takes 
    them 
    away 
    from 
    the black 
    granite 
    wall 
    toward 

    the 
    other 
    monument
    so 
    white 
    and clean. 

    Verse 4

    O, 
    Po
    tomac, 
    what 
    you've seen. 

    Abraham 
    had 
    his 
    war 
    too, 

    but 
    an honest 
    war. 

    Or so 
    it's 
    taught 
    in school. 

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