WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Sabaton - 1916 Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Sixteen years old when I went to the war,
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To fight for a land fit for heroes,
A E
God on my side, and a gun in my hand,
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Chasing my days down to zero,
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And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,
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And I never did get any older,
A E
But I knew at the time that a year in the line,
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Was a long enough life for a soldier,
[Verse 2]
A E
We all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,
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And we added two years to our ages,
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Eager for life and ahead of the game,
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Ready for history’s pages,
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And we brawled and we fought and we whored ’til we stood,
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Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
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A thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,
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And that’s what you are when you’re soldiers,
[Solo]
[Verse 3]
C G
I heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,
F C
Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother,
C G
And I fell by his side, and that’s how we died,
F C
Clinging like kids to each other,
C G
And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,
F C
And I wept as his body grew colder,
C G
And I called for my mother and she never came,
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Though it wasn’t my fault and I wasn’t to blame,
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And the day’s not half over and ten thousand slain,
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And now there’s nobody remembers our names
[Outr0]
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And that’s how it is for a sold ier.
