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