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Miss Freda Hooper
03:27
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
03:49
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (Capo 5)
Em All for god and country
C That’s why we do this drill
Am But how’re they going to square this
D\F# The book says “Thou shalt not kill…”
Em All for King and Kitchener
C Wouldn’t go of my own free will
Am No one asks about the sixth
D\F# ‘Cos it says “Thou shalt not kill…”
C I wouldn’t lie, I wouldn’t steal
G Nor take my best friends girl
C Now they say it’s fine for me
D7 To ignore “Thou shalt not kill…”
Em Both sides of the front line
C Bow their heads and stand quite still
Am They worship the same god us us
D\F# Yet we know “Thou shalt not kill…”
Em I listened to the chaplain
C He said this is god’s will
Am But I’ve seen it written in his book
D\F# It still says “Thou shalt not kill…”
It didn’t finish when they said and there was more guts than glory
Just men and mud and letters home while they covered up the story
Rich will just get richer while we fight to the bitter end
After this is over how will we all make amends
C I wouldn’t lie, I wouldn’t steal
G Nor take my best friends girl
C Now they say it’s fine for me
D7 To ignore “Thou shalt not kill…”
C They lied to us, they stole our youth
G They had quotas to fulfil
C I don’t think it’s right that they
D7 Ignored “Thou shalt not kill…”
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3. |
Vic the Dog
02:00
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4. |
Belles of the Brickfield
04:33
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5. |
God or Union
04:57
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6. |
Egbert
03:49
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7. |
I Think of You
02:47
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It’s Made a Different Man of Me (Findlay Napier)
B7 When this is over- my pet, my lamb
B7 And I come home- my dear wife and my boy
B7 You deserve happiness- my pet, my lamb
B7 My life’s objective- my dear wife and my boy
E/G# G6 F#m B7
I can see my follies
E/G# G6 F#m B7
See what might have been
C7 F#m
I can see what’s going to be
B7 E7
It’s made a different man of me
B7 Sharing our troubles- my pet my lamb
B7 Church on a Sunday- my dear wife and my boy
B7 We’ll go together- my pet my lamb
B7 You’ll be contented- my dear wife and my boy
B7 No old associates- my pet my lamb
B7 I’ve made mistakes- my dear wife and my boy
B7 Each I will rectify- my pet my lamb
B7 When this is over- my dear wife and my boy
B7 We’ll never let them alone- my pet, my lamb
B7 Shelled them till Tuesday- my dear wife and my boy
B7 Then I will come home- my pet, my lamb
B7 Soon it will be over my- dear wife and my boy
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9. |
20 Minutes
03:16
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10. |
Little Tommy Atkins
02:49
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Little Tommy Atkins The Soldier’s Son- D
Little Tommy Atkins the soldier’s son
Striding round the the town with his wooden gun
Mother digs for victory
Daddy went to war
It will all be over as soon as it’s begun
It will all be over as soon as it’s begun
Little Tommy Atkins lied about his age
Mother Atkins slapped him flew into a rage
Didn’t want a feather
Didn’t like the school
Chaplain waved him off lad don’t forget to pray
Chaplain waved him off lad don’t forget to shave
Little Tommy Atkins marching ten miles in the rain
Pissing in his boots to help relieve the pain
He can point a rifle
Bayonet the straw
Packed him off to Flanders crammed aboard a train
Packed him off to Flanders crammed aboard a train
Little Tommy Atkins gassed up the front line
Weeping in his dugout starts to lose his mind
Bullet in his shoulder
Shrapnel in his arse
Stop your crying private where’s your effin spine
Stop your crying private where’s your effin spine
Little Tommy Atkins the soldiers son
Shambles round the streets of his quiet English town
Mother doesn’t say much
Daddy’s in the ground
And there’s no jobs for heroes now the war is won.
And there’s no jobs for heroes now the war is won.
Poor old Tommy Atkins couldn’t talk to anyone
Had a little accident cleaning out his gun
Bullet blew his head off
Heard it down the street
Here lies Tommy Atkins modern warfare’s son
Here lies Tommy Atkins modern warfare’s son
For Tommy it was over as soon as it began
For Tommy it was over as soon as it began
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