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