Sadyr City chords by Corb Lund

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Verse 1:
    D MajorD               F#F#
Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this

      E minorEm          D MajorD
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared

 D MajorD              F#F#
Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more

   E minorEm            D MajorD
I'm tired and I just don't care


 D MajorD          F#F#
How many tours is too many tours

 E minorEm            D MajorD
My baby she'd like to know

               F#F#
'Cause always there at the back a'my mind

     E minorEm           D MajorD
Is that Jody's there when I go

Chorus:
 D MajorD            A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

 D MajorD            A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back

    D MajorD         A minorAm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

    D MajorD          C majorC
Some shit went down in Iraq

         D MajorD
I ain't goin' back


Verse 2:
       D MajorD           F#F#
Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot

   E minorEm              D MajorD
And Muqtada's local fighters emerged

 D MajorD              F#F#
Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two

     E minorEm            D MajorD
And another later during the Surge

  D MajorD             F#F#
Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care

      E minorEm             D MajorD
It was get it on and kick us some ass

  D MajorD              F#F#
Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds

     E minorEm           D MajorD
But they educated me pretty fast


Chorus:
 D MajorD            A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

 D MajorD             A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back

    D MajorD         A minorAm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

    D MajorD          C majorC
Some shit went down in Iraq

         C majorC
I ain't goin' back


Verse 3:
       D MajorD               F#F#
Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light

      E minorEm           D MajorD
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen

 D MajorD           F#F#
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount

    E minorEm              D MajorD
Get busy, fight it out in the streets


      D MajorD             F#F#
Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops

 E minorEm         D MajorD
Haji launchin' RPGs

 D MajorD               F#F#
Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys

 E minorEm                D MajorD
Draggin' on and on week after week


     D MajorD                F#F#
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby

      E minorEm              D MajorD
But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque

      D MajorD            F#F#
Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy

       E minorEm                D MajorD
But they couldn't help the guys that we lost


Chorus:
  D MajorD            A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

 D MajorD            A minorAm
Never let 'em send me back

    D MajorD        A minorAm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

   D MajorD           C majorC
Some shit went down in Iraq

         D MajorD
I ain't goin' back


Verse 4:
      D MajorD               F#F#
Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home

      E minorEm                D MajorD
But they say they're all supportin' the troops

      D MajorD            F#F#
There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that

       E minorEm         D MajorD
Out here thinkin's only for fools


    D MajorD               F#F#
And as long as there's no lack of young man willin'

   E minorEm              D MajorD
To ride to the sound of the guns

     D MajorD              F#F#
I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army

    E minorEm             D MajorD
And of both sides losing their sons


Final Chorus:
    D MajorD             A minorAm
They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City

    D MajorD            A minorAm
They ain't a-gonna send me back

    D MajorD            A minorAm
My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty

    D MajorD            C majorC
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq

           C majorC
They're sending me back