Bible Pages

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I was only just fifteen, when I 
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took a shilling from the king,
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And the Quartermaster winked at me,
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 he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
    Dm                             
I learnt to take apart my gun, and 
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feel tobacco in my lungs,
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And we would roll our cigar - 
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[Verse 2]
    Dm                           
And as we marched up to the line, 
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'knew we'd be back by winter time,
    Dm                             
But we soon learnt only the 
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blind... could find their way back 
home,
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And all through Deuteronomy, I 
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cursed whatever had made me,
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And we would roll our cigar - 
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[Chorus]
Gm                                
    There's no heaven, there's no 
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hell,     not as far as I can tell,
Gm                             
    There's no Devil, there's no 
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God, only men and mud! | /   /
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[Verse 3]
 Dm                              
When the brass would come around, 
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we'd stand our feet sunk in the 
ground,
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They'd say we'd made our country 
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proud, but their England was not 
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mine,
    Dm                             
And we must be prepared to die, but
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 they forgot to tell us why,
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And we would roll our cigar - 
A7         Dm
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[Chorus]
Gm                                
    There's no heaven, there's no 
      Dm
hell,     not as far as I can tell,
Gm                             
    There's no Devil, there's no 
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God, only men and mud! | /   /
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    /    /  |


[Verse 4]
Dm                                
I'd not long turned seventeen, 
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when I took the one that finished 
me,
       Dm                          
And I must have lain so peacefully,
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 be - neath the broken sky,
    Dm                             
And so they took my life away, and 
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what would the Chaplain say,
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If he knew we rolled our cigar - 
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All we had to roll our cigar - 
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ettes was Bible pages!


[Coda]
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     F        C        Dm      
And we would roll our cigar - 
A7         Dm
ettes with Bible pages!