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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 )

   G5 D5            G5 D5            G5 D5            G5 D5
 |   /__/  /  /  /  |   /__/  /  /  /  |   /__/  /  /  /  |   /__/  /  /  /  | 

 
D5                                               A5
I was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
            D5                          F5                A5
And the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
    D5                                          A5
I learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
    F5         C5        D5      A5         D5
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


    D5                                                    A5
And as we marched up to the line, 'knew we'd be back by winter time,
    D5                                       F5                 A5
But we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
    D5                                          A5
And all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
    F5         C5        D5      A5         D5
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


G5                                      D5
    There's no heaven, there's no hell,     not as far as I can tell,
G5                                     A5                   A5  A5  A5 A5
    There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!    |   /   /     /    /   | 


 D5                                                        A5
When the brass would come around, we'd stand our feet sunk in the ground,
       D5                                            F5             A5
They'd say we'd made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
    D5                                              A5
And we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
    F5         C5        D5      A5         D5
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


G5                                      D5
    There's no heaven, there's no hell,     not as far as I can tell,
G5                                     A5                   A5  A5  A5 A5
    There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!    |   /   /     /    /   | 


D5                                                         A5
I'd not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
       D5                                 F5               A5
And I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
    D5                                              A5
And so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
        F5       C5          D5     A5         D5
If he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
        F5      C5        D5      A5        D5
All we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!

  D5                                            D5 D5 D5 D5
 |   /  /  /  /   |   /  /  /  /   |   /  /  /  /   |   /__/   /    /  /   | 

  D5                                            D5 D5 D5 D5
 |   /  /  /  /   |   /  /  /  /   |   /  /  /  /   |   /__/   /    /  /   | 

  A5                                  F5        C5        D5      A5         D5              
 |   /  /  /  /   |   /  /  /  /   |   And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


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G5      =  xx0031
D5      =  xx0231
A5      =  x02020
F5       =  133211
C5       =  x32010
G5      =  355333
A5    =  302020
A5    =  102020
A5    =  002020
D5      =  xx0233
D5   =  xx0230
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