[Intro]
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[Verse]
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You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
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You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
D E
So when you're waiting for the next attack
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You'd better stand there's no turning back.
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The Bugle sounds and the charge begins
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But on this battlefield no one wins
D E
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
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As I plunge on into certain death.
[Chorus]
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Ohhhhhhhh
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Ohhhhhhhh
[Bridge]
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D G/D E
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D G/D E
[Verse]
F#m E
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
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The mighty roar of the Russian guns
D E
And as we race towards the human wall
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The screams of pain as my comrades fall.
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We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
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And the Russians fire another round
D E
We get so near yet so far away
F#m
We won't live to fight another day.
[Chorus]
E F#m
Ohhhhhhhh
E F#m E
Ohhhhhhhh
[Solos]
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Bm A F#m G A Bm A F#m G A
Bm A F#m G A Bm A F#m G E
[Bridge]
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D G/D E
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D G/D E
[Verse]
F#m E
We get so close near enough to fight
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When a Russian gets me in his sights
D E
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
F#m E
A burst of rounds take my horse below.
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And as I lay there gazing at the sky
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My body's numb and my throat is dry
D E
And as I lay forgotten and alone
F#m
Without a tear I draw my parting groan.
[Chorus]
E F#m
Ohhhhhhhh
E F#m E
Ohhhhhhhh
[Outro]
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