Artist: Boo Hewerdine
Song: Bible pages
Tabbed by:DJ

A great anti-war song by Boo, about a young English soldier in World War I

Tuning:Standard

Capo: 4th fret (sounds in key of F#m)

G7 (320001@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm            G7 (320001@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm            G7 (320001@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm            G7 (320001@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
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Dm (xx0231@1)                                             A7I (x02020@1)was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
            Dm (xx0231@1)                        F (133211@1)              A7And (x02020@1)the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
    Dm (xx0231@1)                                        A7I (x02020@1)learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
    F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)    A7 (x02020@1)       DmAnd (xx0231@1)we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

Dm (xx0231@1)                                                  A7And (x02020@1)as we marched up to the line, 'knew we'd be back by winter time,
    Dm (xx0231@1)                                     F (133211@1)               A7But (x02020@1)we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
    Dm (xx0231@1)                                        A7And (x02020@1)all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
    F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)    A7 (x02020@1)       DmAnd (xx0231@1)we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

Gm (355333@1)                                    Dm (xx0231@1)   There's no heaven, there's no hell,     not as far as I can tell,
Gm (355333@1)                                   A7 (x02020@1)                 A7 (x02020@1)A7/G (302020@1)A7/F A7/E
    There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!   |  /   /     /    /  |

Dm (xx0231@1)                                                      A7When (x02020@1)the brass would come around, we'd stand our feet sunk in the ground,
       Dm (xx0231@1)                                          F (133211@1)           A7They'd (x02020@1)say we'd made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
    Dm (xx0231@1)                                            A7And (x02020@1)we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
    F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)    A7 (x02020@1)       DmAnd (xx0231@1)we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

Gm (355333@1)                                    Dm (xx0231@1)   There's no heaven, there's no hell,     not as far as I can tell,
Gm (355333@1)                                   A7 (x02020@1)                 A7 (x02020@1)A7/G (302020@1)A7/F A7/E
    There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!   |  /   /     /    /  |

Dm (xx0231@1)                                                       A7I'd (x02020@1)not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
       Dm (xx0231@1)                               F (133211@1)             A7And (x02020@1)I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
    Dm (xx0231@1)                                            A7And (x02020@1)so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
        F (133211@1)     C (x32010@1)        Dm (xx0231@1)   A7 (x02020@1)       DmIf (xx0231@1)he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
        F (133211@1)    C (x32010@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)    A7 (x02020@1)      DmAll (xx0231@1)we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!

Dm (xx0231@1)                                          Dsus4 (xx0233@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm Dsus2 (xx0230@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
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Dm (xx0231@1)                                          Dsus4 (xx0233@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm Dsus2 (xx0230@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
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A7 (x02020@1)                                F (133211@1)      C (x32010@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)    A7 (x02020@1)       Dm (xx0231@1)            
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

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G7 (320001@1)    =  xx0031
Dm (xx0231@1)    =  xx0231
A7 (x02020@1)    =  x02020
F (133211@1)     =  133211
C (x32010@1)     =  x32010
Gm (355333@1)    =  355333
A7/G    =  302020
A7/F    =  102020
A7/E    =  002020
Dsus4 (xx0233@1)    =  xx0233
Dsus2   =  xx0230