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