Band: Street Dogs
Album: Fading American Dream
Song: Final Transmission
Tabbed By Chaser

~~ - Hold Chord

A5 C5 F5 x2

A5                 C5        F5
He had just turned nineteen yesterday
A5        C5           F5
Wanted to be a school teacher someday
A5          C5         F5
Came from a small and modest town
A5        C5      F5                G5
Had never before traveled abroad


A5               C5            F5
He signed on the promise of a college fund
A5          C5             F5
Pop and Mom begged him to stay at home
A5                 C5           F5
The last time they saw him was at an airport
A5                       C5        F5
He hugged his distraught mother a final time


G5                                   F5
He went abroad to serve when he was only nineteen
G5                                   F5
Reality caught up with him , stole a heart full of dreams


C5                                                G5 
He's never gonna get a chance to chase all those hopes
          A5              F5
Lost them all amidst this war and smoke
C5                         G5 
Can you hear the sound of youth negated?
A5          F5
Watch on TV names are taken
F~~
Mother, Mother
N/C/
My final transmission


A5 C5 F5 X2
Paris Island was plain hell on earth

Got gunny yelling at him , "better prove your worth"

Moved on to Baghdad about six months on

Caught an IED today, now he is gone

He went abroad to serve when he was only nineteen

Reality caught up with him , stole a heart full of dreams

He's never gonna get a chance to chase all those hopes

Lost them all amidst this war and smoke

Can you hear the sound of youth negated?

Watch on TV names are taken

Mother, Mother

My final transmission


A5 x4

F5                     A5
Dad and Mom I am your only loving son
C5                                G5
Hid a written final transmission under my helmet
F5                A5
Love you both in heart and mind
C5                          G5
A better set of parents no boy could ever find


Am~~
Weep for me and say thy prayers
N/C/
Remember me through all your years
Am~~
Only got to serve for six months on and
N/C/
If you're reading this I have passed and gone


[Verse Chords]
So I harbor my final request
A letter in my memory please send
Off to the President and all his men
Begging him with others to bring the troops back home

He's never gonna get a chance to chase all those hopes
Lost them all amidst the war and smoke
Can you hear the sound of youth negated?
Watch on TV names are taken

He's never gonna get a chance to chase all those hopes
Lost them all amidst this war and smoke
Can you hear the sound of youth negated?
Why are all those young lives taken?
Mother, Mother
My final transmission