Hometown Battlefield chords by J.p. Cormier

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G D G C A

  G                 D
He got home from the service, as the spring began its turn
G      Em   Bm
Twelve long months away
  G               D
He folded up his uniform with the medals tucked inside
    G      A
Started living for today

    G                D
But the present could not find him, nor could his wife and kids
    G     Em   Bm
He was there but he was gone
G              D
Soon his only comfort was a bottle and his gun
     G         A
Something right that went so wrong

Chorus:
    Bm        G       D
And the silence keeps on coming as the movie plays again
    Bm        G       D       A
You can smell that yellow dust and death hanging on the wind
    Bm         G      D      A
And we thought the war was over but the headlines do reveal
   D                 A       D     D
That another soldier died today on the hometown battlefield

Break:
 G   D   Em G C G   A   A

Verse:
  G                  D
He sits outside the courthouse with his pant legs tucked away
  G   Em    Bm
And no one knows his name
G                    D
One wrong step there in the sand put him where he is today
G         A
One more just the same

G                 D
All his memories live there in the space below his knees
G     Em   Bm
Back when he was whole
     G         D
But that IED didn't just relieve him of his legs
  G       A
It blew apart his soul

Chorus:
    Bm        G       D
And the silence keeps on coming as the movie plays again
    Bm        G       D       A
You can smell that yellow dust and death flying) on the wind
    Bm         G      D      A
And we thought the war was over but the headlines do reveal
   D                 A       D     D   D
That another soldier died today on the hometown battlefield

Verse:
A                  G         D
If you're wearing loafers, you ain't walked the burning sand
  A              G       D
And you ain't never had to shoot another livin' man
     Em      D       G      D
It don't matter if we won, it don't matter if we lost
     Em       D     G     A   A
They were following their orders, no matter the cost


   G                 D
So I remember what they've given when I see my flag unfurled
G   Em     Bm
Free against the sky
    G                 D
And the way we seem to lose them when they get back to the world
  G        A
Can someone tell me why

Chorus:
    Bm        G       D
And the silence keeps on coming as the movie plays again
    Bm        G       D       A
You can smell that yellow dust and death hanging on the wind
    Bm         G      D      A
And we thought the war was over but the headlines do reveal
   D                 A       D     D
That another soldier died today on the hometown battlefield
    Bm       G      D      A
Yes we pray the war is over but the headlines do reveal
   D                 A       D     D
That another soldier died today on the hometown battlefield

Outro:
G D G A D