Note: When I write "D" I mean either D or DaddG: e:---3------ B:---3------ G:---2------ D:---0------ What you do (listen to the album) is to play D and this chord. It ammounts to playing the little mandolin riff on the high e string. You can make a similar riff on the G chords by hitting an open A string. Of course, you can play along with the record without any of these fancy mandolin riffs, I don't care... and it sounds fine with just the chords. Most chords are played open. But then, you never really know with Billy.
Intro: Bm / A / D / Bm / A / G(open or barre) / Bm / A / D / Bm / A / D
Dig in boys for an extended stay
Those were the final orders to come down that day
Waiting to be saved in the Philippines
You'll wait forever for the young Marines
{same as above} Now I believe to be here is right But I have to say that I'm scared tonight Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand What comes first, the country or the man
F#m G(barre) D Look at those slanted eyes coming up over the hill
Catching us by surprise, it's time to kill or be killed
chorus:
Over here, over there, it's the same everywhere
A boy cries out for his mother before he dies for his home
(same as above) All my life I wanted to be As clever and strong as my best friend Lee We grew up together along half Moon Bay Lee was Japanese, born in the USA
When Tommy was fighting Jerry along the River Seine Me and Lee we wanted to do the same Then they bombed Pearl Harbor at the break of day I was headed for these islands when Lee was hauled away
They said look at his slanted eyes, he's guilty as guilty can be Sent here as enemy spies to sabotage the Land of the Free
I never got home, my platoon was never saved That little foxhole became my island grave Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained Till he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain
And they said, Oh Little Slanted Eyes can't you forgive and forget And he said Oh Mr Friendly Ghost Can you catch water in a net?
