D5


[Chorus]
              D
I've known no war

And if I ever do I won't know for sure

Who'll be fighting whom
         G/D
For the soldiers lonely tomb
    C G                  D A                     F C        D A
Now opens as soon as the referee's gun starts to roar


[Post-Chorus]
               D     G     Am   C
I've known no war
                    D    G    Am   C
No I've never known war



[Verse 1]
     D
Galbraith took his pen
     G
To break down the men
       Am             C
Of the German army defeated
        D
On the nineteenth day
      G
Of a spring day in May
Am                  C
Albert Speer was deleted
        G                      Am
And as soon as the battle was over
       Bm                C
I was born in victorious clover
         D                     Em
And I've never been shot at or gassed
                  F        G
Never tortured or stabbed
         Dm C  D A                    D
And I'm sure,       I'll never know war


[Chorus 2]
G                    D
No, I'll never know war
      G
Oh no no
                        D
I know I'll never know war
         G
And if I ever do

The glimpse will be short
D
Fireball in the sky
   G
No front line battle cries
        C G                   D A
Can be heard as the button is pushed
                      F C     D A
By a soul that's been bought


[Post-Chorus 2]
              D    G     Am     C
I'll know no war........ No!
              D    G     Am     C
I'll know no war


[Verse 2]
       D
In and out of reach loft
      G
The medals are lost
        Am                     C
They belong to a lone broken sailor
        D
His provinces now
         G
Are the bars of the town
     Am                       C
His songs and his poems of failure
          G                           Am
For his grandchildren can't see the glory
         Bm                           C
And his own kids are bored with the story
         D                              Em
But for him they'd have burned behind netting
                         F       G
From the brink they were grabbed
         Dm C  D A                    D
And I'm sure,       I'll never know war


[Chorus 3]
G
  I'll never know war
              D
I've known no war

And if I ever do I won't know for sure

Who'll be fighting whom
         G/D
For the soldiers lonely tomb
    C G                  D A                     F C        D A
Now opens as soon as the referee's gun starts to roar
               D
I've known no war


[Interlude]
D5


[Chorus]
D   G               D    G
War, I've known no war
                 D
I'll never know war
         G
And if I ever know it

The glimpse will be short
D
Fireball in the sky
   G/D
No front line battle cries
        C G                   D G
Can be heard as the button is pushed
                      F C     D A
By a soul that's been bought
          C G                  D A                     F C
And the armies remaining will judge without people or courts
              C G                     D A                  F C   D A
And there's no point pretending that knowing will help us abort

[Post-chorus]
              D
I'll know no war