Forgotten Sons chords by Marillion

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Intro:

D  E  G  A


Verse:

D         E              G
Armalite, street lights, nightsights
A                         D         E        G
Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter
A                          D               E                G
Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill you
A                    Am
For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores
     D                F  D  F
Boys baptised in wars
F                Am
Boys baptised in wars

D  F  D  F  Am       D  F  D  F

Am
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream
Am                    D        F         D
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags
     F                     Am
Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen
     D          F      D    F   Am
Your flesh will always creep
tossing turning sleep
D               F       D F
The wounds that burn so deep

A5
Your mother sits on the edge of the world
A5
When the cameras start to roll
A5
Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
A5
Your father drains another beer, he's one of the few that cares
A5
Crawling behind a Saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair
A5
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons
A5
And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour
A5
I must fear evil, for I am but mortal and mortals can only die
A5
Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers
A5
That stalk the carpeted corridors of Whitehall
A5
Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation
A5
I in the guarded bureaucratic wombs
A5
Minister, minister care for your children, order them not into damnation
A5
To eliminate those who would trespass against you
A5                                                               Am    A5    Dm
For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever and ever, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
N.C.                                      Dm
Halt who goes there, Death, approach friend

Bb   C  Am   Bb   C  Am

Verse:

Dm                         Bb     C                       Am
You're just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
          Bb               C                  Am                         Bb
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
    Dm                   Bb                 C                Am
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Bb               C                 Am             Bb
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell

Dm  Bb  C  Am

Chorus:

Am        Bb
Forgotten Sons

Bb  C  Am  Bb

Bb        Dm
Forgotten Sons

Bb  C  Am  Bb C  Am  Bb

Verse:

Bb           Dm                Bb         C               Am
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
Bb                  C                  Am                  Bb
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash
Bb     Dm                  Bb           C                      Am
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost
Bb                    C           Am               Bb
For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous

Dm  Bb  C  Am  Bb  C  Am

Chorus:

Bb        Dm  Bb  C
Forgotten son
Am        Bb    C         Am  Bb
Forgotten sons, Forgotten sons
       Dm  Bb      G    Am
They’re still forgotten
Am       Bb    C     Am       Bb
They’re still, still forgotten

Outro:

Dm                 Bb          C                Am           Bb  C
Peace on earth and mercy mild, Mother Brown has lost her child
C    Am      Bb C      D
Just another Forgotten Son