The hardest thing chords by Colin Buchanan

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G
Gsus4
C
Dsus4
Gsus2
Am
D

Intro 1

Gsus4

Verse 1
G 
You were born
outside of Liverpool in England
C 
The bank propelled your
Gsus4 
father left and right
Dsus4 
You told     me about your boarding
Gsus2 
Dsus4 
G 
school adventures
C 
That magic world that lived
Gsus4 
in black and white
G 
You turned eighteen and
enlisted in the Air Force
C 
Gsus4 
To fly horser gliders over enemy      lines
Dsus4 
You never       lost your wide
-eyed joy of flying
C 
Gsus4 
And Hitler took that bullet just in time
G 
The expectations placed you at the ledger
C 
But your banker's life
Gsus4 
was nev      er meant to be
Dsus4 
You weathered Grandad's
English aspirations
C 
Gsus4 
And he set you sail across the Irish Sea
C 
G 
You always had your chin up to the sky
Am 
Stood up straight with self
-respect and pride
You looked every single
G 
challenge in the eye
C 
But the hardest thing you ever
G 
Gsus4 
did was die
G 
To Marnie, Chris,
you were more than just a nephew
C 
Treasured like the sun
she never bore
Dsus4 
You stepped into the
paper mill at Swiftbrook
C 
In your coat and tie you walked
the factory floor
Gsus4 
G 
And when you went to Dr.
Duckdale's with a toothache
C 
You left there with a filling and a pride
Dsus4 
I love that photo on
the steps of Christchurch
C 
GKV  with Joan Margaret by his side
G 
You always had your chin up to the sky
Am 
Stood up straight with self
-respect and pride
You looked every single
G 
challenge in the eye
C 
But the hardest thing you ever
G 
Gsus4 
did was die
G 
Cranham Road was your
Irish family castle
C 
Until the millbar sent you on your way
Dsus4 
You bravely sailed the
six of us to safety
C 
From Southampton down
into Port Phillip Bay
Dsus4 
G 
You were forty when
you set foot in Australia
C 
Resourceful and relentless
and near broke
Dsus4 
We faced hardship like that
D 
acre of lantana
C 
Packed it out by hand and
sent it up in smoke
You wore his head,
G 
your chin up to the sky
Am 
Stood up straight with self
-respect and pride
G 
Looked every single challenge in the eye
C 
The hardest thing you ever did
G 
Gsus4 
G 
was die
C 
G 
Don't grow old,
you'd always tell your grandkids
C 
Am 
An ugly early whiff of Waterloo
C 
D 
Dsus4 
Your life began the spiral into helpless
C 
And this time there
was nothing you could do
G 
All the finest stories have a champion
C 
To step in when the darkest hour has come
G 
D 
But the Saviour came
G 
and bore you safely over
D 
C 
The hardest thing
you both had ever done
G 
You always had your chin up to the sky
C 
Stood up straight with self
Am 
-respect and pride
You looked every single
G 
challenge in the eye
C 
But the hardest thing you ever did was die
You looked every single
G 
challenge in the eye
But the hardest thing you ever did was die