Gm    Bb    Gm    Bb  D  Cm    Gm    Bb  D  Gm    


[Verse 1]
 Gm                                     Bb
Across the savage skies and through the fissures in the fields
    Gm                            Bb             F
the rumble of the engines and the trundle of the wheels.
        Cm                                 Gm
Through hell and horror trudge and yet our spirits never yield.
          Bb               D              Gm
Will they sing of these forsaken pawns of war?


[Chorus]
          Gm              Bb             F            Gm
Hoist the flags, hold the lines, lessons ever lost to time.
       Bb              D               Gm
Now we sing for you, departed pawns of war.


[Verse 2]
   Gm                      Bb
My bonnie lays afar upon a lonely eiderdown
        Gm                              Bb            F
while I dream of rats and tar within my burrow in the ground.
  Cm                            Gm
Infernal gaping scar of boiling mud and thundering sound,
           Bb              D             Gm
they won't sing of this forsaken pawn of war.


[Chorus]
          Gm              Bb             F            Gm
Hoist the flags, hold the lines, lessons ever lost to time.
       Bb              D               Gm
Now we sing for you, departed pawns of war.


[Bridge]
D     D     D     D     
D                                D
 Death on the dunes, we feed the deserts.
D                           D
 Blood of the empires on the sand.


Gm    Bb    Gm    Bb  D  Cm    Gm    Bb  D  Gm    


[Chorus]

          Gm              Bb             F            Gm
Hoist the flags, hold the lines, lessons ever lost to time.
       Bb              D               Gm
Now we sing for you, departed pawns of war.
          Gm              Bb             F            Gm
Hoist the flags, hold the lines, lessons ever lost to time.
       Bb              D               Gm
Now we sing for you, departed pawns of war.