The Recruiting Sergeant chords by Levellers

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

Levellers – The Recruiting Sergeant

Submitted by Hyugo
G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me

G
So I fixed up the alarm
  Am
And broken half way in
    C       G
When a security guard appears
  C        Am
And busts me on the chin
  C         G
He kicks me round and says
    C          Am
Do you know the shit youre in
    G      C
I said I was on me arse mate
   D       G
Meant no offence to him


G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me

G
I know Ive let you down babe
Am
Trying to make ends meat
    C          G
When I met this recruiting sergeant
    C         Am
By the courthouse on the street
  C        G
He said youre a disgrace boy
  C          Am
And thats youre fucking crime
   G        C
Then somebody got the drinks in
   D          G
And I signed on the dotted line


G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me


G
Now Im sucking dust in Helmand
Am
Dug into Lashkar Gar
     C       G
Where the local weed and opium
   C      Am
Beats any British bar
 C          G
I know as we lay there dreaming
  C          Am
Im still in the pay of thieves
    G         C
And Im rushing back to be with you
 D       G
Upon this desert breeze


G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me



Instrumental break
G, Am, C, G, C, Am, C, G, C, Am, G, C, D, G


G
Dont follow me to die boys
  Am
In bloody Kandahar
     C       G
With the eerie glow of tracers
     C       Am
Lighting every wretched scar
  C        G
And say a prayer for me
  C         Am
And cry each year this day
     G        C
So if you see a recruiting sergeant boys
D     G
Run, run away


G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me


G
Over the mountains
  Am
And over the seas
  C    G
By Hurcules transporter
  C     Am
To fight the Afghani
    C      G
With a rifle in my hand
  C    Am
To set the country free
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G
That means everything to me
     G       C
Its your picture in my pocket
      D       G

THE END!