Dedication Day chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1


G+G         D MajorD         C majorC
August in Mildura, and winters on the run,

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there?s an early taste of springtime, in the warm mid-morning sun.

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As the men marched past from first to last, the crowds cheer everyone,

 A minorAm                        D MajorD    A minorAm         D MajorD        G+G
 and war seems somehow very far away, on this sunny dedication day.

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They marched to a memorial, built by and for their own,

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a simple wall of remembrance of brick and steel and stone.

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With the names inscribed of those that died and to those that had made it home,
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  G+G
 with a debt of love and honor to repay, had all gathered there on dedication day.


Chorus


G+G      D MajorD    C majorC
It?s dedication day,

G+G      D MajorD     C majorC
It?s dedication day.


Verse 2

G+G                        D MajorD            C majorC
There was a concert held that evening me and others sang our songs,
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    D MajorD
while the boys drank beer and reminisced, laughed and clapped and sang along.

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As I was standing there with my guitar, just waiting to go on,
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            D MajorD       G+G
 a man grabbed my arm and said please would you play a, song for my mate Hans this dedication day.

Verse 3

G+G                  D MajorD               C majorC
He asked me to sing welcome home, and I saw tears in his eyes,

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 I knew there was a story there, but I did not want to pry.

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And then he said to me, I want that song you see, for this morning my mate died,
A minorAm                                  D MajorD      A minorAm

D MajorD       G+G
faced with his grief there was nothing I could say, so I sang for Hans on dedication day.


Chorus

G+G     D MajorD     C majorC
It?s dedication day

G+G     D MajorD     C majorC
It?s dedication day


(Piano solo)


Verse 4

G+G                       D MajorD          C majorC
They say that Hans took his own life, but I don?t know if that?s true,

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but if it is that?s no surprise, too many Vietnam vetrans do.

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Only those who were there, can know the despair and the pain that he went through,
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for who can understand it more than they, those who knew the cost of dedication day

Verse 5

G+G                       D MajorD             C majorC
Though that Asian wars long over, there still burying their dead

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yet somehow the bond grows stronger, with each broken thread

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What poison stole and two hands sold to taint the years ahead
A minorAm                       D MajorD            A minorAm              D MajorD

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In that war so long ago and far away until they died of wounds on dedication day.


G+G  D MajorD  C majorC
G+G  D MajorD  C majorC

Chorus


G+G     D MajorD     C majorC
It's dedication day

G+G     D MajorD     C majorC
It's dedication day

(Repeat until fade out)