Tabbed by ssjEasterBunny

TUNING:

Half-step down 

STRUMMING:

D5  D5  D5 U D5 U D5 D5 U
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +


CHORDS USED: (Named by finger position, not by notes. The Roman numeral VI after the A# 
it?s on the sixth fret, just so no one thinks I made it up.)

     F5     A5    A#5    C5     D5    F5  A5   A#VI  F5
Eb | --------0-----------0-----1----------------------------- | 
Bb | --1-----1-----------1-----3----------------------------- | 
Gb | --2-----2-----3-----0-----2----12----12-----7----10----- | 
Db | --3-----2-----3-----2-----0----10----10-----8----10----- | 
Ab | --3-----0-----1-----3-----------8-----0-----x-----8----- | 
Eb | --------------------------------------------6----------- | 


Okay, here we go:

INTRO:

Eb | --------------------------------- | ----------------/5---3---1---0--- | 
Bb | -----6-------6-------6-------6--- | -1~~----------------------------- | 
Gb | ---------5-------5-------5------- | -0~~----------------------------- | 
Db | --------------------------------- | -2~~----------------------------- | 
Ab | --------------------------------- | -3~~----------------------------- | 
Eb | -6------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | 


          F5
He said, "Son,
                  A5
Have you seen the world?
                     A#5
Well, what would you say
                   F5
If I said that you could?
                A#5                   F5
Just carry this gun; you'll even get paid."
                            C5
I said, "That sounds pretty good."

              F5
Black leather boots,
               A5
Spit-shined so bright
                A#5                   F5
They cut off my hair, but it looks alright.
                  A#5
We marched and we sang;
              F5
We all became friends,
                     C5
As we learned how to fight.

          D5
A hero of war,
                      A#5
Yeah that's what I'll be.
                F5
And when I come home,
                         C5
They'll be damn proud of me.
                D5
I'll carry this flag
       A#5
To the grave if I must.
              F5
?Cause it's a flag that I love,
                  C5
And a flag that I trust.

                F5
I kicked in the door.
               A5
I yelled my commands.
                   A#5
The children, they cried,
             F5
But I got my man.
             A#5
We took him away,
                  F5
A bag over his face,
                     C5
From his family, his friends.

                  F5
They took off his clothes.
                   A5
They pissed in his hands.
               A#5
I told them to stop,
                F5
But then I joined in.
                 A#5
We beat him with guns
                    F5
And batons not just once,
               C5
But again and again.

          D5
A hero of war,
                      A#5
Yeah that's what I'll be.
                F5
And when I come home,
                         C5
They'll be damn proud of me.
                D5
I'll carry this flag
       A#5
To the grave if I must.
              F5
?Cause it's a flag that I love,
                  C5
And a flag that I trust.


NOTE:
Replace the last strum of the chorus with the note in parentheses below. Palm-mute the 
chords until the original ones kick back in.

Eb | ----- | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | 
Bb | ----- | -----6-------6-------6-------6--- | -1~~------------(b9)-------------- | 
Gb | ----- | ---------5-------5-------5------- | -0~~----------------12--10---(b9)-- | 
Db | ----- | --------------------------------- | -2~~----------------------------- | 
Ab | ----- | --------------------------------- | -3~~----------------------------- | 
Eb | -(5)- | -6------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | 


    F5                       A5
She walked through bullets and haze.
               A#VI
I asked her to stop;
                F5
I begged her to stay.
                A#VI
But she pressed on,
               F5
So I lifted my gun,
             C5
And I fired away...

        F5                         A5
And the shells jumped through the smoke
             A#5
And into the sand
                       F5
That the blood had now soaked.
       A#5                        F5
She collapsed with a flag in her hand;
                C5
A flag white as snow...

          D5
A hero of war,
                  A#5
Is that what they see?
                F5
Just medals and scars;
                 C5
So damn proud of me.
                        D5
And I brought home that flag.
               A#5
Now it gathers dust.
                         F5
But it's the flag that I love;
                     C5
It's the only flag I trust.

          F5
He said, "Son,
                  A5
Have you seen the world?
                     A#5
Well, what would you say
                   F5
If I said that you could?


NOTE:
Fear not if you have a hard time picking out the individual notes in the outro; McIlrath 
pulls a ?the hell with it? it and strums them like in the verse.


Enjoy!