G G/F# Em D C G
G G/F# Em D C G


[Verse 1]
     G       G/F#     Em        D    Am          C
I am writing you this letter in desperation I'm afraid
      G        G/F#    Em      D       Am        C
And I won't be back to Lindsay for the veterans' parade
             G         G/F#   Em   D    Am              C
'Cause I got banged up pretty good in a street fight in Bilbao
      G        G/F#   Em      D        C                G
And I won't be coming home to see your young and pretty face


[Chorus]
     C                G
I am far too young to feel so old
                     D
And far too tired to care
       G         G/F#   Em         D         C             G
That I took down twenty bastards before they left me lying there
C G D
G G/F# Em D C G


[Verse 2]
       G      G/F#   Em       D Am            C
When I landed here a year ago I know that I believed
            G         G/F# Em       D            Am             C
That it was better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees
         G        G/F#   Em      D    Am          C
And it's not that I care any less for that philosophy
            G         G/F#       Em     D        C              G
But I would spend one night with you in trade of all that I've achieved


[Chorus]
             C             G
'Cause I was never much on dreams
                           D
And they were never big on me
      G           G/F#   Em   D      C                G
And I can't dream my way home from a gravesite by the sea

        C                  G                             D
So I'll clench my fist and once more sing 'The Internationale'
         G         G/F#   Em
And I'll say, "Goodbye, I love you."
 D          C                  G
'Cause it's time that I should go