Sadr City

D  Am  D  Am


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[Verse 1]
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Honey, don't tell the boys I been 
  F#m
talkin' like this
         G                         
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' 
    D
I'm scared
  D                        F#m
Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no
 more
     G                      D
I'm tired and I just don't care
        D                          
How many tours is too many tours
F#m

         G                         
My baby she'd like to know
    D

        D                          
'Cause always there at the back 
F#m
a'my mind
         G                         
Is that Jody's there when I go
    D


[Chorus]
D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr 
City
D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back
       D              Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr 
City
      D                 Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
               D
I ain't goin' back

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[Verse 2]

        D                      
Well I was there in '04 when it 
    F#m
first got hot
         G                         
And Muqtada's local fighters 
    D
emerged
        D                
Earned a Purple Heart via 
          F#m
Seven-Six-Two
Continúa después del anuncio
         G                         
And another later during the Surge
    D


        D                     
Didn't know nothin' back then, 
     F#m
didn't care
         G                         
It was get it out and kick us some 
    D
ass
        D                        
Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia 
  F#m
from the Kurds
         G                         
But they educated me pretty fast
    D


[Chorus]

D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr 
City
D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back
       D              Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr 
City
      D                 Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
               D
I ain't goin' back

[Verse 3]

        D                          
Well it was pretty touch n'go from 
F#m
the very first light
         G                         
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen
    D

        D                          
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount
F#m

         G                   
Get busy, fight it out in the 
          D
streets

        D                        
Well all hell broke loose, takin' 
  F#m
fire from the rooftops
         G                         
Haji launchin' RPGs
    D

        D                    
Fightin' runnin' battles with 
      F#m
militias in the alleys
         G                         
Draggin' on and on week after week
    D


        D                          
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a 
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shrine nearby
         G                         
But they wouldn't let us light up a
    D
 mosque
        D                          
Then our tanks rolled in, real hard
F#m
 real heavy
         G                         
But they couldn't help the guys 
    D
that we lost

[Chorus]

D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr 
City
D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back
       D              Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr 
City
      D                 Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
               D
I ain't goin' back

[Verse 4]

        D                          
Well I don't know if it matters to 
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the folks back home
         G                         
But they say they're all supportin'
    D
 the troops
        D                   
There's no time anyway to be 
       F#m
dwelling on that
         G                         
Out here thinkin's only for fools
    D


        D                        
And as long as there's no lack of 
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young man willin'
         G                         
To ride to the sound of the guns
    D

        D                        
I'll be waking up dreaming of the 
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Mahdi Army
         G                         
And of both sides losing their sons
    D


[Final Chorus]

D                      Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back to 
Sadr City
D                      Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back
    D                       Am
My orders came through and babe it 
isn't pretty
        D                    Am
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq
                    D
They're sending me back