F = 133211 A7/F = 102020
A7/E = 002020
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
DmA7
I was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
DmFA7
And the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
DmA7
I learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
FCDmA7Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Verse 2]
DmA7
And as we marched up to the line, 'knew we'd be back by winter time,
DmFA7
But we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
DmA7
And all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
FCDmA7Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Chorus]
GmDm
There's no heaven, there's no hell, not as far as I can tell,
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There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud! | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
DmA7
When the brass would come around, we'd stand our feet sunk in the ground,
DmFA7
They'd say we'd made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
DmA7
And we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
FCDmA7Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Chorus]
GmDm
There's no heaven, there's no hell, not as far as I can tell,
GmA7A7A7/GA7/FA7/E
There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud! | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
DmA7
I'd not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
DmFA7
And I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
DmA7
And so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
FCDmA7Dm
If he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
FCDmA7Dm
All we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!
[Coda]
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A7
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FCDmA7Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!