Tonalité : E major•
Intro 1
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C#m
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B
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Verse 1
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My father said farewell
C#m
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and the band played tunes of glory
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E
A giant man with ribbons,
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bedeviled dignity
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A regimental sergeant,
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the backbone of the Empire
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For God and righteous glory
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bound for High Germany
Verse 2
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Sweet Lord, I was just seven when
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Margaret was eleven
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They served us war for breakfast and
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soldiers' songs for tea
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E
"Your father's gone campaigning"
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was a way of not explaining
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That soldiers are the living
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B
proof of our inhumanity
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Verse 3
My childhood passed away midst
C#m
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the tales and lurid stories
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Of manufactured glories
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and inhuman gallantry
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I asked, "When is war over?",
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but no one deemed to answer me
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And Margaret played that dreaded
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B
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tune called High Germany
Verse 4
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B
Sweet Lord, I was just seven when
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Margaret was eleven
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E
They served us war for breakfast
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and soldiers' songs for tea
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E
"Your father's gone campaigning"
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E
was a way of not explaining
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That soldiers are the living
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B
proof of our inhumanity
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A
Interlude 1
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C#m
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B
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Verse 5
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My father made it home,
C#m
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but he came without his reason
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Two eyes of molten madness,
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a senseless fool of war
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"He's just a child," my mother cried,
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"to be dressed in full regalia
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And paraded as a hero home
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from High Germany"
Verse 6
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Sweet Lord, I was just seven
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when Margaret was eleven
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They served us war for breakfast
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and soldiers' songs for tea
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E
"Your father's gone campaigning"
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E
was a way of not explaining
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E
That soldiers are the living
B
proof of our inhumanity
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Verse 7
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There'll be no tunes of glory
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B
for Margaret and me
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