White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land
White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land

White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land easy guitar chords by Phil Ochs

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Guitar
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E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

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Transpose

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Capo

  • D

  • G

  • Em

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Em

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • C

    • Verse 1
    The pilots 
    playing 
    poker 
    in 

    the cockpit 
    of the plane 

    The casualties 
    arriv
    ing 
    like 

    the dropping 
    of the 
    rain 

    And 
    a 
    mountain 
    of ma
    chinery 

    will 
    fall 
    before a 
    man 

    When 
    you're 
    white 
    boots 

    marching 
    in 
    a yel
    low 
    land 

    Verse 2
    It's 
    written 
    in the ashes 
    of 
    the village 

    towns we 
    burn 

    It's written 
    in the 
    empty 
    bed 

    of the fathers 
    unre
    turned 

    And 
    the 
    chocolate 
    in the chil
    drens 

    eyes 
    will never 
    under
    stand 

    When 
    you're 
    white 
    boots 

    marching 
    in 
    a yellow 
    land 

    Red 
    blow 
    Verse 3
    the bugles 
    of the 
    dawn 

    The 
    morning 
    has arrived 

    you must 
    be gone 

    And 
    the 
    lost 
    patrol 
    chase their 

    chartered 
    souls 

    Like 
    old 
    whores 
    following 
    tired 
    armies 

    Verse 4
    Train 
    them well, 

    the 
    men 
    who will be 
    fighting 
    by your 
    side 

    And never 
    turn your 
    back 
    if 

    the battle 
    turns 
    the 
    tide 

    For 
    the 
    colours 
    of a civil 
    war 
    are 

    louder 
    than com
    mands 

    When 
    you're 
    white 
    boots 
    marching 

    in 
    a yellow 
    land 

    Blow them 
    from 
    the 
    forest 
    and 
    Verse 5

    burn them 
    from your 
    sight 

    Tie their 
    hands 
    be
    hind their 
    back 

    and question 
    through 
    the 
    night 

    But when 
    the 
    firing 
    squad 
    is 
    ready 

    they'll be 
    spitting 
    where they stand 

    At 
    the 
    white 
    boots 
    marching 

    in 
    a yel
    low 
    land 

    Red 
    blow 
    the bugles 
    of 
    Verse 6
    the dawn 

    The 
    morning 
    has arrived 

    you must 
    be gone 

    And 
    the 
    lost 
    patrol 
    chase their 

    chartered 
    souls 

    Like 
    cold 
    whores 
    following 

    tired 
    armies 

    Verse 7
    The comic 
    and the 
    beau
    ty queen 
    are 

    dancing 
    on the 
    stage 

    Raw recruits 
    are 
    lin
    ing 
    up like 

    coffins 
    in a 
    cage 

    We're 
    fighting 
    in 
    a 
    war we 
    lost 

    before 
    the war 
    began 

    We're 
    the 
    white 
    boots 
    marching 

    in 
    a yel
    low 
    land 

    Verse 8

    And 
    the 
    lost 
    patrol 
    chase their 

    chartered 
    souls 

    like 
    cold 
    whores 
    following 
    tired 
    armies 



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