This is a great song. Simple to play (like most of the Leveller's stuff), but is enhanced by adding rythmic hammer-ons and pull-offs in the latter stages. Listen to the song and get into it...
Intro +++++
Verse 1 +++++++
Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
It's just another firefight
For the people of this little town
But for the dying soldier
Well he's feeling ten years older
As he's lying face down on the ground
All the words that are in his head
And all the words that his mother said
As she would put him to bed back home
Chorus ++++++
Your Daddy when he died in the Falklands
Fighting for another man's cause
And your brother he was killed in the last war
And your mother, well she's lying home alone
Verse Two +++++++++
Everyday she sees your face
On the picture on the fireplace
With your brother as he was leaving school
Then a day came five years ago
You said "Mother, I need to know"
And you spoke the words your brother spoke before
"I know the things my Daddy done
And I've seen the medals that he's won
And I know this is what he would have wanted for me
CHORUS ++++++
Bridge ++++++
Now she wonders at it all
Just in whose name, do these brave young heros fall
And how many more are gonna answer that call
They're gonna fight and die in another country's war
They're gonna die for a religion didn't believe in at all
They're gonna die in a place they should never been at all
Oh, never been at all
CHORUS ++++++
Lose yourself in the cresendo bit +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
C G Am Am (Repeat six times)
CHORUS ++++++
This document was done by Jeremy Aston. Any corrections, enhancements are always appreciated.
