Til The Last Shots Fired Cifras

Til the Last Shot's Fired
Authors: Rob Crosby, Doug Johnson
2008 by race Adkins
 
CAPO 2nd Fret
 
 
 
Em                             C/D
I was there in the winter of '64
Am                   C           Em
When we camped in the ice at Nashville's doors
G                  C        D
Three hundred miles our trail had led
Am                  C        Em
We barely had time to bury our dead
G                       C      D
When the Yankees charged and the colors fell
Am                  C      Em
Overton hill was a living hell
G                    C       D
When we called retreat it was almost dark
Am                   C      Em
I died with a grapeshot in my heart
 
C      D         Em
Say a prayer for peace
C      G      D
For every fallen son
C       D      Em
Set my spirit free
C      G       D
Let me lay down my gun
Am         C       D
Sweet mother Mary I'm so tired
C               D                    Em
But I can't come home 'til the last shot's fired
 
Em   Am   /   Em   Am
 
Em           C/D
In June of 1944
Am                    C         Em
I waited in the blood of Omaha's shores
G              C        D
Twenty-one and scared to death
Am                C       Em
My heart poundin' in my chest
G                C        D
I almost made the first seawall
Am                     C      Em
When my friends turned and saw me fall
G                     C         D
I still smell the smoke, I can taste the mud
Am                     C        Em
As I lay there dying from a loss of blood
 
CHORUS
 
C
I'm in the fields of Vietnam,
D
The mountains of Afghanistan
C
And I'm still hopin', waitin', prayin'
D
I did not die in vain
 
CHORUS
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