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What Did You Do In The War, Dad? chords by 
Sonata Arctica 
N/A•
Key: G minor•BPM: 130
Intro 1
F#m
D
F#m
E
F#m
E
F#m
E
F#m
E
D
Fdim
C#
F#m
E
F#m
E
F#m
E
F#m
C#
F#m
Verse 1
Em
Dad,
C
what did you do in the war?
Em
Something to answer for?
D
You say too young I am to know
Verse 2
Em
C
Dad, I've heard you cry at night
Em
Mournful and desperate blight
D
Where did you learn that song you sing?
Interlude 1
D
Em
B
Em
C
Em
Am
B
Em
D
Em
B
C
G
Am
B
C
D
Verse 3
Am
C
"War is in me! I was the war!"
Em
"And your praying brings
D
back the suffering"
Am
Em
G
C
"No, please, don't start to cry"
Am
C
"I only pray you'll never know"
Em
"The things I see every time
D
I close my eyes"
Am
G
Bm
G
C
D
"Angels still have faces"
Verse 4
Em
What did you do in the war, dad? Tell me
C
Why can't you smile when
G
D
the children sing?
Em
C
Did the wages of war cut
G
D
your soaring wings?
Verse 5
Am
Em
And your soul is now torn,
G
Em
G
C
un like mine
Em
Am
G
Do you fear yesterday
C
will in some way
D
E
Define the life of your child?
Interlude 2
F#m
E
F#m
E
F#m
E
C#
D
F#m
Em
F#m
E
F#m
E
D
C#
D#m
B
Bb
Ebm
B
Bb
Ebm
Bb
B
Ebm
C#
D#m
F#
B
Bb
B
Em
Verse 6
C
Dad, I know what you did in the war
Em
Deeds devils would ab hor
D
Bm
Did you fulfill the oath you swore?
Verse 7
Em
C
Dad, did you do it for me?
D
C
Em
Their blood for my life to live
D
In the hollow without reprieve,
Verse 8
without you
D
Am
C
"War is in me! I am the war!"
Em
"Don't you force me to live
D
the nightmare again!"
Am
(I'm sorry...)
G
C
"Please don't make me cry"
Am
"My son, you never ever
C
want to know"
Em
"How when guarding your sleep
D
serene I hear"
Am
B
G
C
"The silence of the children who sang"
Interlude 3
C
D
Em
B
Em
C
Em
Am
B
C
D
Em
B
Em
C
Em
Am
B
C
D
Verse 9
Em
B
C
Far and beyond the stars there's
G
Am
A place where all the love
B
C
D
All the goodness we could have still resides
Em
But we choose life away
B
C
G
from the light
Am
B
You can find ghosts of loss in
C
D
the gaze of your beautiful child
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