WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Tim Barry - South Hill Ukulele | Ver. 1
I'm uploading this because I couldn't seem to find it online and had to
self-teach it by ear. If I've gotten the chords wrong, I apologize, let me
know and I'll try to fix it. One way or another, I'm putting this here so
someone else can get the same enjoyment out of this song that I do.
Intro: C
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When my girl got pregnant well I dropped right out of school
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But there's no work in South Hill so what else could I do?
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The recruiter's came-a-knocking when this whole damn thing began
G5 C
They promised me a college education food and medicine
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They said I wouldn't spend a dime if I got deployed overseas
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Plus Baghdad is safer now than old Washington, DC
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So I signed that dotted line right quick and in a blink of an eye
G5 C
I found myself at Fort Benning where I practiced forming lines
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Well Fallujah became my home, my comfort and my dread
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The marines that came through first man they tore this place to shreds
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With the sound of crushing Amtracs and the whine of their Humvee's
G5 C
Calling in them A-10 air strikes man I wish I could have seen it
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But when we got to town I realized we were only legs
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We do dismounted patrols we do searches and do raids
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We hear the crack of small arms fire and the blast from IED's
G5 C
We hurry up and wait, suck in dust and stay low key
G5 F C
And I cannot stop this pounding in my head
G5 F C
I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said
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Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down
G5 F
But I'm oddly at ease with this chaos all around
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Then one day out on patrol doing time out in the heat
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We were ordered to a neighborhood to talk to folks out on the street
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To gather information on where some weapons may be stored
G5 C
Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them off out of Fallujah and to the north
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Well my platoon got lost and made more then one wrong turn
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We should have called in our position fast but we blamed each other first
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Then we started taking sniper fire - god damn them all
G5 C
We couldn't find the shooter no where he had us pinned down one and all
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Well friendies they caught up and we took back that god damned street
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But something wasn't right and I was feeling really weak
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My adrenaline was high and I was scared and I could hardly breathe
G5 C
I heard doc argue with the Sarg that morphine might kill me
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That's the last thing I remember that and heat and clear blue sky
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And thinking about my girl back home and my daughters little eyes
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I took that bullet in Fallujah and I'm laid up in Germany
G5 C
And I'm headed back stateside to the care of Walter Reed
G5 F C
And I cannot feel a thing below my waist
G5 F C
Doc tried to help me man but it was too late
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Now I don't know who is right or who is wrong
G5 C
But I'm f**ked up and I want to go back home
G5 F C
And I cannot stop this pounding in my head
G5 F C
I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said
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Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down
G5 C
But one day I'll stand firmly on the ground
G5 C
Yes one day I'll stand firmly on the ground