Key of G -> Capo 4 = Key of B Chords are basically the same throughout. Intro/verses: D5 C5 G5 2x e | --x-x--------x-3-------x-3 B | --3-3--------x-3-------x-3 G | --0h2--------0-0-------x-0 D | --0-0--------2-2-------x-0 A | --x-x--------0h3-------2-2 E | --x-x--------x-x-------3-3 D5 C5 G5 Oh Mother are you sleepin'? D5 C5 G5 Did you pray for me tonight? D5 C5 G5 Cause I'm alone here on this front line D5 C5 G5 Hoping I might get back home alive. D5 C5 G5 I see the bullets flyin', D5 C5 G5 And I feel the bombs explode. D5 C5 G5 I close my eyes and pull this trigger D5 C5 G5 And kill these people I don't even know. Chorus playing this: e | ----------------------- | B | --1--0-------1--0------ | G | --------2----------2--- | D | ----------------------- | A | ----------------------- | E | ----------------------- | D5 C5 G5 And Mother, please forgive me D5 C5 G5 For these things that I have seen and done. D5 C5 G5 I hope I can still get home to heaven. D5 C5 G5 I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Interlude goes, very basically, something like this (relative to capo) e | ----------------------- | B | ----------------------- | G | --2s4s5---4s2s4--2p0h2- | D | ----------------------- | A | ----------------------- | E | ----------------------- | Got 60 pounds upon my back. Machine gun in my hand. All day long clearin burned out shacks. All these things I know I'll never understand. For next chorus a 2nd guitar plays this: e | --3-2----3-2----3-2--- | B | ------3------3------3- | G | ---------------------- | D | ---------------------- | A | ---------------------- | E | ---------------------- | And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish that I could tell you I was safe away from harm , But everytime I close my eyes Mama, I wish you could hold me in your arms. And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun.