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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.
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