68 Guns chords by The Alarm

G Bm
  And now they’re trying to take my  life away
  C G D Dsus4 Dsus2
  forever young I cannot  stay .
  G Bm
  On every corner I can see them  there
  C G D Dsus4
  They don’t know my name they, don’t know my  kin d
  Bm C
  They’re after you with their  promises  (Promises of love)
  Bm C C/B D Dsus4
  They’re after you to sign your li fe a way.

  G Cadd4
  68 guns will never  die
  Bm D
  68 guns our battle  cry,
  C C/B Am C C/B Am
  68  guns,         68  guns

For living in the backstreets that’s our home from home.
The painted walls are all we’ve ever known
And¨The Guns Forever¨ that’s our battle cry.
It is the flag that we fly so high
and every day they try to drag us down
but I cry with anger I have done no crime.

  G D Em G D Em
          Up no the terrace I can hear the crowd roa r  (6 8 guns)
  G D Em G D Em
         And down in the subway I can hear  them whis pe r  (68guns)
  Em Dsus2
  Through all the raging glory of the  years
  C
We never once thought of the f ears
  Bm Am
For what we’d do when the battle  cry was  over.

  G Dsus2
Nothing lasts forever is  all they seem to  tell you
  Em
when you’re  young
  C D
Have no i llusion, no disillusion