Tonalité : E minor
Intro 1
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Csus2
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Verse 1
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Granddaddy fought on the Northern Seine
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A witness to the ghost
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of Charlemagne
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The northern lights saw the Holy Ghost
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Drove him out of the bunker
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toward a German host
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Mustard gas tore his lungs apart
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But he was driven
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by a hero's heart
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He told my daddy and
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daddy told my son
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How the First World War
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was won
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On the bodies of a hundred friends
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Lay broken hearts that victory cannot mend
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For God, for country,
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and for a tale to tell
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Turned their youth into
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their time in hell
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Turned their youth into their
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time in hell
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My father played the Pacific state
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On the tide of his nation's rate
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Struck by a call to arms by infamy
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Got the job done,
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came home and made me
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Never spoke about it when I asked
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But mama said he killed more
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than granddaddy had
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They hardly slept through any given night
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Without dreaming about the sight
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Of the bodies of a hundred friends
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Of broken hearts that
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victory cannot mend
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For God, for country, for tale to tell
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Turn their youth into their time in hell
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Turn their youth into their time
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in hell
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I've been a fighter since I was a child
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My fists hard and my spirit wild
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My war came in a different way
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I didn't want to go and
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I just couldn't stay
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While up in Winnipeg
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I had to change my name
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My daddy swore he'd
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never say my name again
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A hero's son of a hero's son
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Turned away and was forgotten
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Among the bodies of a hundred men
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A broken heart's a
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victory cannot mend
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Forgot the country for a tale to tell
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Turned our youth into our time in hell
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Turned my youth into my time in hell
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When mama fought her
war in that cancer ward
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I came home to hold her hand
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My father opened up
that big front door
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Hugged my wife and my son, Dan
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Took me in his arms
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As if I were the boy I was before
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The night my mama died
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We made a promise
We swore
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On the bodies of a hundred friends
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Inside the differences you try to mend
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For God, for country, for mama as well
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To leave the time behind as our time in hell
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To leave it all behind as our
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time in hell
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For God, for country, for tale to tell
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To leave the past behind
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as our time in hell
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And leave it all behind as I drive in hell
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