Intro: G5 E5 G5 E5 Verse: G5 E5 What can you see from your window? G5 E5 I can't see anything from mine. G5 E5 Flags on the side of the highway C5 G5 D5 and scripture on grocery store signs. G5 E5 Maybe eighteen was too early. G5 E5 Maybe thirty or forty is too. G5 E5 Did you get your chance to make peace with the man C5 G5 D5 before he sent down his angels for you? Chorus: E5 F#5 G5 Mamas and grandmamas love you E5 F#5 G5 F#5 'cause that's all they know how to do. E5 B5 You never planned on the bombs in the sand C5 G5 D5 or sleeping in your dress blues. Verse: G5 E5 Your wife said this all would be funny G5 E5 when you came back home in a week. G5 E5 You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you C5 G5 D5 in a bar or a tent by the creek. G5 E5 Your baby would just about be here. G5 E5 Your very last tour would be up G5 E5 but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black C5 G5 D5 drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups. Chorus: E5 F#5 G5 Mamas and grandmamas love you E5 F#5 G5 F#5 American boys hate to lose. E5 B5 You never planned on the bombs in the sand C5 G5 D5 or sleeping in your dress blues. Bridge Verse G5 E5 Now the high school gymnasium's ready, G5 E5 full of flowers and old legionnaires. G5 E5 Nobody showed up to protest, C5 G5 D5 just sniffle and stare. G5 E5 But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters G5 E5 and there's silent old men from the corps. G5 E5 What did they say when they shipped you away C5 G5 D5 to fight somebody's Hollywood war? E5 F#5 G5 Nobody here could forget you. E5 F#5 G5 F#5 You showed us what we had to lose. E5 B5 You never planned on the bombs in the sand C5 G5 D5 or sleeping in your dress blues. E5 B5 You never planned on the bombs in the sand C5 G5 D5 or sleeping in your dress blues.
