The War

Verses:

Am C F5 G F5

Am C F5 C D F5

Chorus:

C G F5 C D F5

Keep in mind that the last "verse" ("I'd be no guest") has chorus chords.

Am____C__________F
I got drafted at nineteen
G___________________________F
Me and a bunch of boys from home
Am__C___F_____C
January forty-three,
D__________________________________F
drove out to Pine Bluff and signed on


Am______C______________F
Went to basic south of Birmingham
G__________________________F
Put me on west coast bound train
Am__________C___________F_____C
Spent three days out in San Diego
D_____________________________F
And they shipped me back east again


Am_____C___________F
Left a port out of New York
G___________________________F
Slept for months in British rain
Am______C__________F______C
Tore it up down in London town
D____________________________F
And they shipped me back out again


C_________________G___________F___________C
The preacher said Boys he who is killed tonight
_____D_________________________F
will dine with the Lord in Paradise
C_____________G________F_____________C
One boy spoke up, said preacher come on
D____________________F
eat your supper with us


Am____C_______________F
Never talk about those first days
G______________________F
Lots of friends left behind
Am____C_______________F__________C
But I made it all the way across France
D___________________________F
And I fought at the Maginot line

Am_____C_________F
Road a tank into Belgium
G__________________________F
Liked them better than the French
Am______C______F______________C
Like my daddy, thirty years before
D__________________F
I did my time in a trench

Am______C_______________F
Lots of days there's no water
G______________________F
But the liquor kept me warm
Am_______________C________________F_____________C
The cellars were stocked to their ceilings with booze
D_____________________________F
So I carried a bottle with my gun


C_________________G___________F___________C
The preacher said Boys he who is killed tonight
_____D_________________________F
will dine with the Lord in Paradise
C_____________G________F_____________C
One boy spoke up, said preacher come on
D____________________F
eat your supper with us


Am____C_____________F
Three times I made sergeant
G____________________F
I'm not that kind of man
Am_________C____________F__________C
And pretty much just as quick as I could
D_____________________________F
I get busted back to private again


Am___________C____________F
Cause taking orders never suited me
G______________________F
Giving them out was much worse
Am______C____________F______________C
I could not stand to get my friends killed
D________________________F
So I took care of myself first

Am____C_______________F
Now I know that don't sound right
G______________________F
Don't think too bad of me
Am_____C________F_________C
Now it keeps me up nights
D_____________________________F
What I could have done differently


C_________________G___________F___________C
The preacher said Boys he who is killed tonight
_____D_________________________F
will dine with the Lord in Paradise
C_____________G________F_____________C
One boy spoke up, said preacher come on
D____________________F
eat your supper with us


C_________G____________F____________C
I'd be no guest at the table of the Lord
D______________________F
His food was not to be mine
C__________________G__________F_____________C
Cause I cursed His name every chance that I could
D________________________________F
And I recon that's why I'm still alive