Standard tuning, Capo on 5th fret if using Dan's chord construction. 

This is how Dan plays the chords, standard construction works just as well:
D  10 9  12 11 x  x
A  6  7  11 9  x  x
Bm 7  9  9  7  7  7 
G  x  10 12 12 12 

D
Let's start a war for the kids 
A
A purpose for which to unite 
D
Make them some words they can mince 
G *               D                A
What they don't know, They won't mind 

D
Find them a foe for the fight 
A
And stories to tell as they age 
D
Then maybe time will decide 
G *             D                A
Which ones keep and which ones fade 

Chorus: 
Bm *                             D
There's the deepest sleep in my life, 
Bm *                            D
from which I am slowly coming to 
A *                  Bm *
And every morning I wait for the news 
A *
oh this is, this is post war blues 

guitar solo 

Make me a means to an end 
Oh make me an ending in sight 
Make me insightful again 
What I can't see, I can't fight 

Make me a fire to burn 
burn all the letters I wrote 
write me a list of concerns 
If we are at peace 
If we are at ease 
I want to know 

Chorus: 
There's the deepest sleep in my life 
from which I am slowly coming to 
And every morning I wait for the news 
Oh this is, this is post war blues 

Oh this is, this is post war blues