Bible Pages chords by Hewerdine Boo

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

A 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#m)

  G7 Dm      G7 Dm      G7 Dm      G7 Dm
| /__/ / / / | /__/ / / / | /__/ / / / | /__/ / / / |


Dm                        A7
I was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
      Dm             F        A7
And the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I'd lied a - bout my age,
  Dm                     A7
I learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
  F     C    Dm   A7     Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!

  Dm                          A7
And as we marched up to the line, 'knew we'd be back by winter time,
  Dm                    F         A7
But we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
  Dm                     A7
And all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
  F     C    Dm   A7     Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


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


 Dm                            A7
When the brass would come around, we'd stand our feet sunk in the ground,
    Dm                      F       A7
They'd say we'd made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
  Dm                       A7
And we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
  F     C    Dm   A7     Dm
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


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


Dm                             A7
I'd not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
    Dm                 F        A7
And I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
  Dm                       A7
And so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
    F    C     Dm   A7     Dm
If he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
    F   C    Dm   A7    Dm
All we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!

 Dm                      Dsus4 Dm Dsus2 Dm
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | /__/  /  / / |

 Dm                      Dsus4 Dm Dsus2 Dm
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | /__/  /  / / |

 A7                 F    C    Dm   A7     Dm
| / / / / | / / / / | And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!


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G7   = xx0031
Dm   = xx0231
A7   = x02020
F    = 133211
C    = x32010
Gm   = 355333
A7/G  = 302020
A7/F  = 102020
A7/E  = 002020
Dsus4   = xx0233
Dsus2  = xx0230