Derapet chords by Fred Smith

Chords with lyrics

DmDm                     C majorC
You're looking hungry cobber, here plant your arse down mate


     A minorAm                  G+G
would you like some mashed potatoes with that burger on your plate?


    FF                 C majorC
it's been another long shift here at the Cooper Pedy mess


Bb majorBb                 DmDm
but if you've got a minute I’ve got something on my chest

DmDm         C majorC
The 24th of August back in 20 10


    A minorAm                   G+G
I was working out of Tarin Kowt with a squad of 20 men


FF                    C majorC
the Dutch had pulled the pin leaving Uruzgan for good


Bb majorBb                  DmDm
it fell to us to fill the void to the west in Deh Rawud


DmDm               C majorC
It had been a lethal summer starting back in June


        A minorAm               G+G
We’d lost Smithy, Snowy, Palmer, Aplin, Chucky and then Bewes


FF                    C majorC
August took down Jason Brown then Kirbs and Thomas Dale


    Bb majorBb               DmDm
On the morning of their service, we set out on Route Whale


DmDm               C majorC
I was carrying the Maximi a thumping belt fed gun

     A minorAm                G+G
With an action like a jackhammer, the weapon weighed a tonne


    FF                C majorC
We drove south of the Tangi to an RV where we met


       Bb majorBb                  DmDm
with two brick of boys from Anur Joy and we turned for Derapet


DmDm               C majorC
Lance Jack McKinney - the boys all called him ‘Crash’


        A minorAm               G+G
he was the fastest bastard we all knew for distance or for dash


   FF                 C majorC
a soldier's bloody soldier and the fittest man I’ve met


Bb majorBb                   DmDm
I was proud to walk beside him on approach to Derapet


DmDm                  C majorC
60 clicks out in the sticks to the west of Tarin Kowt


    A minorAm                   G+G
the sappers saw the FAMS move in and the women all clear out


  FF              C majorC
a TIC was what we wanted, a TIC was what we’d get


    Bb majorBb                      DmDm
it was only a matter of when and where in the fields of Derapet


DmDm                   C majorC
Me and Crash were partnered in reserve back at the rear


A minorAm                      G+G
although we weren't at point that day I felt and smelt the fear


    FF                    C majorC
The boys kept probing forward through the aqueduct and sluice


    Bb majorBb                    DmDm
Till from a nearby tree line I could see all hell break loose


DmDm                   C majorC
They’d had hit a complex ambush of about a 100 men


    A minorAm           G+G
the chattering of AKs and the thud of PKMs


    FF                      C majorC
the rounds were whistling around em but we couldn't tell where from


       Bb majorBb                    DmDm
Cause the Talibs had concealment from the tree line and the corn


DmDm               C majorC
A augmentedA call came on the ICOM to come forward from the back


    A minorAm               G+G
they needed my machine gun at the front of the attack


    FF                    C majorC
so me and Crash we hoofed it as the rounds around us cracked


Bb majorBb                   DmDm
running with that weapon and my armour and my pack


DmDm                 C majorC
We’d come 600m through the muddy aquaduct


    A minorAm                 G+G
by the time we reached the front line, frankly I was fucked


    FF                C majorC
my mind said just said keep going but my body just said nope


    Bb majorBb                      DmDm
and I collapsed back on my pack at the bottom of the slope


DmDm                 C majorC
Crash grabbed my Maximi and hauled it up to the crest


    A minorAm                   G+G
that's why he was where he was when the round burst through his chest


   FF                C majorC
I looked up in that instant and I never will forget


    Bb majorBb                       DmDm
As he spun around and crashed facedown in the dust of Derapet


DmDm                   C majorC
Wooly called for dust off we were too far from the cars


    A minorAm                   G+G
We worked on Crash for an hour taking turns on CPR


    FF                    C majorC
the chopper came and medevac’d him back in to TK


        Bb majorBb           DmDm
Where the Doctor at the Role 2 declared him DOA


DmDm                       C majorC
Meanwhile, Keighran broke cover dancing dangerous and strange


    A minorAm                        G+G
A augmentedA hundred Talib muzzles flashed untill the Aslav's found their range


          FF              C majorC
Between those Guncars the Apache and the M777


    Bb majorBb                   DmDm
Many Talibs became martyrs with their virgins up in heaven


DmDm                   C majorC
the battle soon was over they had lost their will fight


    A minorAm               G+G
they left their dead and dying they’d pick em up that night


    FF                G+G
we walked back to the Aslavs and crawled into the FOB


    Bb majorBb               DmDm
I remember sitting quietly with Langer, Sean and Rob


DmDm                   C majorC
Fanners ran the section through an after action brief


   A minorAm                 G+G
I tuned in though exhausted I was numb with shame and grief


    FF                C majorC
The BDA said by the way there’s 30 of them dead


     Bb majorBb                  DmDm
and so they say we won the day and the Battle of Derapet.


DmDm C majorC
A minorAm G+G
FF C majorC
Bb majorBb DmDm


DmDm               C majorC
Beckie’s waters broke at the crematorium


A minorAm               G+G
Just a few hours later, she gave birth to their son


    FF                C majorC
the boys help out with mowing and she got some compo cash


    Bb majorBb                 DmDm
Helps pay the bills but it wont fill the hole where once was Crash


DmDm                   C majorC
Langers won selection, Daniel Keighran got a gong


A minorAm                 G+G
Abbott won the election, and Fred Smith got his song


FF                   C majorC
those who get their accolades deserve all they get


    Bb majorBb                   DmDm
but Crash did not deserve to die at the Battle of Derapet


DmDm                   C majorC
I came back to Brisbane and got out on civvie street


      A minorAm                 G+G
Now I’m working in this mine, mate, in this mess we're miners eat


   FF                  C majorC
I married now with children to a woman named regret


    Bb majorBb                     DmDm
the price you pay for a summers day in the fields of Derapet