Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Cigar
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ettes
and a bottle of beer
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This poem that I wrote for you
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This black stone and these hard tears
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Are all I got left now of you
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I remember you in your Marine
uniform laughing
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Laughing at your ship-out party
party
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I read Robert
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McNamara says he's sorry
Verse 2
Gb
Your high boots and striped t-shirt
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Ah Ah Billy, you looked so bad
Gb
Yeah, you and your rock-n-roll band
band
band
You were best thing this shit
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town ever had
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Now the men who put you here
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Eat with their families in
rich dining halls
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And apology and forgiveness got
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no place here at all
Gb
At the wall
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Well, I'm sorry I missed
you last year
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Couldn't find no one to drive me
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If your eyes could cut
through that black stone
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Tell me, would they recognize me?
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Ab
For the liv ing time it must be served
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The day goes on
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Ab
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer
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Skin on black stone
Verse 4
Gb
On the ground,
dog tags and wreaths of flowers
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With ribbons red as the blood
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Red as the blood you spilled in the Central
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Highlands mud
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Limousines rush down
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ab
Db
Rustling the leaves as they fall
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And apology and forgiveness
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Db
got no place here at all
Gb
Here at the wall
Outro 1
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