White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land chords by 
Phil Ochs 
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Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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Ab
The pilots playing poker in
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the cockpit of the plane
Ab
The casualties arriv ing like
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the dropping of the rain
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Ab
And a mountain of ma chinery
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will fall before a man
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When you're white boots
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Bb
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marching in a yel low land
Verse 2
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It's written in the ashes of the village
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towns we burn
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Cm
It's written in the empty bed
Ab
Fm
of the fathers unre turned
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Ab
And the chocolate in the chil drens
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eyes will never under stand
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When you're white boots
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Eb
marching in a yellow land
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Red blow
Verse 3
the bugles of the dawn
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The morning has arrived
you must be gone
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And the lost patrol chase their
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chartered souls
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Db
Eb
Like old whores following tired armies
Verse 4
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Train them well,
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the men who will be fighting by your side
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And never turn your back if
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the battle turns the tide
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Ab
For the colours of a civil war are
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louder than com mands
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Ab
When you're white boots marching
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in a yellow land
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Blow them from the forest and
Verse 5
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Eb
burn them from your sight
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Tie their hands be hind their back
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and question through the night
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Ab
But when the firing squad is ready
they'll be spitting where they stand
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Eb
Ab
At the white boots marching
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Eb
in a yel low land
Cm
Red blow the bugles of
Verse 6
the dawn
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Bb
The morning has arrived
you must be gone
Ab
And the lost patrol chase their
Bb
chartered souls
Eb
Like cold whores following
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tired armies
Verse 7
Cm
The comic and the beau ty queen are
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Eb
dancing on the stage
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Raw recruits are lin ing up like
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coffins in a cage
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Cm
Ab
We're fighting in a war we lost
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before the war began
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Ab
We're the white boots marching
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Cm
in a yel low land
Ab
Bb
Verse 8
Ab
And the lost patrol chase their
Bb
chartered souls
Eb
Db
like cold whores following tired armies
Eb
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ChordsEb Ab Fm Bb Cm...
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