Key: G major
Verse 1
D
C
At the turning of the century
C
D
Am
Boers and never came back alive
D
C
So she washed and scrubbed and scraped
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D
along on seven and six a week
C
D
Em
of the extra couple of bob
E
D
I'm sure that longer schooling would
D
C
But you can't afford refinements when
G
D
you're struggling for your bread
D
Am
D
I took the royal shilling and went off to do me bit I fought in mud and tears and blood,
C
G
D
Flanders and got invalided out
C
D
thought the fighting done
Am
D
We'd won the right to live in peace
D
C
For soon we found we had to fight
G
D
for the right to go to work
Am
D
For a brave new world was coming
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D
and a brotherhood of man
G
D
were back where we began
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D
and the things they did in
Em
Spain
Am
D
But I brought me kids of decent,
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D
and I taught them wrong from right
But
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D
and taught them how to fight
D
Rome
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D
never bothered to come home
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D
a month a cheerful little note
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Em
things they've got
Am
D
They've got a son, a likely lad,
C
G
called him up to fight in
Vietnam
D
C
We're living on the pension now,
Am
D
When you think of all the wasted lives,
C
D
it makes you want to cry
but by
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D
Christ we'll have to try
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