Sadyr City chords by Corb Lund

• Capo on 2nd

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

           Em                    D
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared

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

      Em                        D
I'm tired and I just don't care


 D                   F#
How many tours is too many tours

 Em                       D
My baby she'd like to know

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

         Em                      D
Is that Jody's there when I go



Chorus:
  D                        Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

  D                       Am
Never let 'em send me back

       D                 Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

       D                   C
Some shit went down in Iraq

                 D
I ain't goin' back



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

      Em                           D
And Muqtada's local fighters emerged

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

         Em                       D
And another later during the Surge


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

            Em                         D
It was get it on and kick us some ass

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

          Em                     D
But they educated me pretty fast



Chorus:
  D                        Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

  D                         Am
Never let 'em send me back

       D                 Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

       D                   C
Some shit went down in Iraq

                 C
I ain't goin' back



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

           Em                      D
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen

  D                      F#
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount

       Em                            D
Get busy, fight it out in the streets


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

 Em                 D
Haji launchin' RPGs

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

  Em                                D
Draggin' on and on week after week


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

            Em                            D
But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque

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

             Em                               D
But they couldn't help the guys that we lost



Chorus:
   D                       Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City

  D                        Am
Never let 'em send me back

        D                Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City

      D                     C
Some shit went down in Iraq

                  D
I ain't goin' back



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

            Em                                D
But they say they're all supportin' the troops

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

              Em                  D
Out here thinkin's only for fools


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

     Em                           D
To ride to the sound of the guns

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

        Em                          D
And of both sides losing their sons



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

        D                       Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back

       D                        Am
My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty

        D                        C
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq

                      C
They're sending me back