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Tuning: E A D G B E
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C#mOh she knoF#ws
She takBes his hand
GmAnd prays the child will understand
C#mAt the door theF#y watch the menB go by
G#mIn the clothes that daddy wore
AMother’s pride
F#Baby boy
BHis fathers eyes
G#mHe’s a soldier waiting foAr war
F#Time will come
He’ll hold a gun
His father’s son
G#m C#m F# E x 2
C#m And as he F#grows
BHe hears the band
G#mTakes the step from boy to man
C#mAnd at the shore she F#waves her son goBodbye
G#mLike the man she did before
AMother’s pride
F#Just a boy
BHis country’s eyes
G#mHe’s a soldier waving Aat the shore
F#And in her heart the time has come
To lose a son
C#mAnd all the husbands, all the sons, aF#ll the lovers gone
BThey make no difference
G#mNo difference in the end
C#mStill hear the woman F#say your daddy died aB hero
G#mIn the name of God and name
AMother’s pride
F#Crazy boy
BHis lifeless eyes
G#mHe’s a soldier now foreveArmore
F#He’ll hold a gun ‘till kingdom come