Sadyr City chords by Corb Lund
Guitar chords with lyrics
- 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 Last updated:
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