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This is a super simple but beautiful song. You can play it straight as shown, or if you want to add a little finesse you could hammer chords and throw is a sus or two. Enjoy! There's actually two instrumentals in the song, but the first is for mandolin and the second is for lead guitar. So I just play them as two loops of the chords progression. Verse 1: A G Brave men fall with a battle cry D A Tears fill the eyes of their loved ones and their brothers in arms G D So it went, for Joseph Warren A G It should have been different, it could have been easy D A His rank could have saved him, but a country unborn needs bravery G D And it spread like wildfire
Chorus: A G D Wildfire A G D Wildfire Verse 2: A G From the ashes grew sweet liberty D Like the seeds of the pines when the forest burns A G D They open up, grow and burn again A G It should have been different, it could have been easy D A But too much money rolled in to ever end slavery G D The cry for war spread like wildfire Chorus: A G D Wildfire A G D Wildfire Instrumental: A G D (x2) Verse 3: A G Civil war came, civil war went D Brother fought brother, the south was spent A G D But its true demise was hatred, passed down through the years A G It should have been different, it could have been easy D A But pride has a way of holding too firm to history G D And it burns like wildfire Chorus: A G D Wildfire A G D Wildfire Instrumental: A G D (x2) Verse 4: A G I was born a southern son D In a small southern town where the rebels run wild A G D They beat their chest and they swear: we're gonna rise again A G It should have been different, it could have been easy D A The day that old Warren died, hate should have gone with it G D But here we are, caught in the wildfire Chorus: A G D Wildfire A G D
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