The Recruiting Sergeant chords by Levellers

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Levellers – The Recruiting Sergeant

Submitted by Hyugo
G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me

G+G
So I fixed up the alarm
  A minorAm
And broken half way in
    C majorC       G+G
When a security guard appears
  C majorC        A minorAm
And busts me on the chin
  C majorC         G+G
He kicks me round and says
    C majorC          A minorAm
Do you know the shit youre in
    G+G      C majorC
I said I was on me arse mate
   D MajorD       G+G
Meant no offence to him


G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me

G+G
I know Ive let you down babe
A minorAm
Trying to make ends meat
    C majorC          G+G
When I met this recruiting sergeant
    C majorC         A minorAm
By the courthouse on the street
  C majorC        G+G
He said youre a disgrace boy
  C majorC          A minorAm
And thats youre fucking crime
   G+G        C majorC
Then somebody got the drinks in
   D MajorD          G+G
And I signed on the dotted line

G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me


G+G
Now Im sucking dust in Helmand
A minorAm
Dug into Lashkar Gar
     C majorC       G+G
Where the local weed and opium
   C majorC      A minorAm
Beats any British bar
 C majorC          G+G
I know as we lay there dreaming
  C majorC          A minorAm
Im still in the pay of thieves
    G+G         C majorC
And Im rushing back to be with you
 D MajorD       G+G
Upon this desert breeze


G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me


Instrumental break
G, Am, C, G, C, Am, C, G, C, Am, G, C, D, G+G


G+G
Dont follow me to die boys
  A minorAm
In bloody Kandahar
     C majorC       G+G
With the eerie glow of tracers
     C majorC       A minorAm
Lighting every wretched scar
  C majorC        G+G
And say a prayer for me
  C majorC         A minorAm
And cry each year this day
     G+G        C majorC
So if you see a recruiting sergeant boys
D MajorD     G+G
Run, run away


G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me


G+G
Over the mountains
  A minorAm
And over the seas
  C majorC    G+G
By Hurcules transporter
  C majorC     A minorAm
To fight the Afghani
    C majorC      G+G
With a rifle in my hand
  C majorC    A minorAm
To set the country free
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G
That means everything to me
     G+G       C majorC
Its your picture in my pocket
      D MajorD       G+G

THE END!