Bible Pages chords by Hewerdine Boo

Chords with lyrics

Artist: Boo Hewerdine
Song: Bible pages
Tabbed by:DJ

A augmentedA great anti-war song by Boo, about a young English soldier in World War I

Tuning:Standard

Capo: 4th fret (sounds in key of F# minorF#m)

  G7G7 DmDm      G7G7 DmDm      G7G7 DmDm      G7G7 DmDm
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DmDm                        A7A7
I was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
      DmDm             FF        A7A7
And the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
  DmDm                     A7A7
I learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
  FF     C majorC    DmDm   A7A7     DmDm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

  DmDm                          A7A7
And as we marched up to the line, 'knew we'd be back by winter time,
  DmDm                    FF         A7A7
But we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
  DmDm                     A7A7
And all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
  FF     C majorC    DmDm   A7A7     DmDm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


G minorGm                   DmDm
  There's no heaven, there's no hell,   not as far as I can tell,
G minorGm                   A7A7          A7A7 A7/GA7/G A7/F A7/E
  There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!  | /  /   /  / |


 DmDm                            A7A7
When the brass would come around, we'd stand our feet sunk in the ground,
    DmDm                      FF       A7A7
They'd say we'd made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
  DmDm                       A7A7
And we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
  FF     C majorC    DmDm   A7A7     DmDm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


G minorGm                   DmDm
  There's no heaven, there's no hell,   not as far as I can tell,
G minorGm                   A7A7          A7A7 A7/GA7/G A7/F A7/E
  There's no Devil, there's no God, only men and mud!  | /  /   /  / |

DmDm                             A7A7
I'd not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
    DmDm                 FF        A7A7
And I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
  DmDm                       A7A7
And so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
    FF    C majorC     DmDm   A7A7     DmDm
If he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
    FF   C majorC    DmDm   A7A7    DmDm
All we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!

 DmDm                      Dsus4Dsus4 DmDm Dsus2Dsus2 DmDm
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | /__/  /  / / |

 DmDm                      Dsus4Dsus4 DmDm Dsus2Dsus2 DmDm
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | /__/  /  / / |

 A7A7                 FF    C majorC    DmDm   A7A7     DmDm
| / / / / | / / / / | And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


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G7G7   = xx0031
DmDm   = xx0231
A7A7   = x02020
FF    = 133211
C majorC    = x32010
G minorGm   = 355333
A7/GA7/G  = 302020
A7/F  = 102020
A7/E  = 002020
Dsus4Dsus4   = xx0233
Dsus2Dsus2  = xx0230