Kunci: C major
Verse 1
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G
F
C
Now the Captain
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called me to his bed
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C
He fumbled for my hand
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C
"Take these silver bars," he said
G
C
"I'm giving you command."
"Command of what,
there's no one here
F
C
There's only you and me
G
All the rest are dead or in retreat
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Or with the enemy."
C
"Complain, complain,
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that's all you've done
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C
Ever since we lost
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C
If it's not the Crucifixion
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C
Then it's the Holocaust."
"May Christ have mercy on your soul
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C
For making such a joke
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Amid these hearts that burn like coal
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C
And the flesh that rose like smoke."
Verse 2
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G
"I know that you have suffered, lad,
F
C
But suffer this awhile:
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C
Whatever makes a soldier sad
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C
Will make a killer smile."
"I'm leaving, Captain, I must go
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C
There's blood upon your hand
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But tell me, Captain, if you know
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C
Of a decent place to stand."
Verse 3
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G
"There is no decent place to stand
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C
In a massacre;
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C
But if a woman take your hand
G
Go and stand with her."
C
"I left a wife in Tennessee
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C
And a baby in Saigon
G
I risked my life, but not to hear
F
Some country-western song."
C
song."
Verse 4
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G
"Ah but if you cannot raise your love
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To a very high degree,
C
F
Then you're just the man
C
I've been thinking of
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C
So come and stand with me."
"Your standing days are
done," I cried,
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C
"You'll rally me no more.
G
I don't even know what side
F
C
We fought on, or what for."
Verse 5
C
G
"I'm on the side that's always lost
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C
Against the side of Heaven
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C
I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
tossed
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C
Against the side of Seven.
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
F
C
And some of it was true
G
But there wasn't any burden left
F
C
So I'm laying it on you."
Verse 6
C
G
Now the Captain he was dying
F
C
But the Captain wasn't hurt
F
C
The silver bars were in my hand
G
C
I pinned them to my shirt.
Outro 1
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G
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