Chords with lyrics
Intro: Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B D MajorD Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD
Verse
G+G D/F#D/F#
He grew up in a time
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
When a third-grade education
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Was all the school you needed
Am7Am7 D MajorD
To work the family farm.
G+G D/F#D/F#
He'd take time off on Sunday
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Him and all his family
A minorAm
warm a pew
C/BC/B Cadd9Cadd9 (FILL 1) G+G
And give thanks to the Lord.
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B Am7Am7 C/BC/B
There was no gray only black and white.
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Didn't need no-one to tell him
A7A7 D MajorD
What was wrong or right.
Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD
'Cause he had God Family and Country.
Verse
G+G D/F#D/F#
He set aside his plow
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
In early 1940
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Said goodbye to his small town
A7A7 D MajorD
And put on the Army green.
G+G D/F#D/F#
Hard Times on the front lines
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Writin' letters on wet paper
A7A7 C/BC/B C majorC (FILL 1) G+G
Not one word about the awful things he'd seen.
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
His was a generation
A7A7 C/BC/B
That answered without question.
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
They knew they had to win
A7A7 D MajorD
'Cause they were fightin' for...
Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
God Family and Country.
Instrumental
A minorAm C/BC/B Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD
Verse
G+G D/F#D/F#
On the coffee table
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Sits the family Bible
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
Where just last year he added
A7A7 D MajorD
A augmentedA little boy to the family tree.
G+G D/F#D/F#
There's the folded flag they gave us
Cadd9Cadd9 C/BC/B
On the day he left us.
A7A7 A minorAm
But the thing that I remember most
A7A7 D MajorD
Is the way that he...
Cadd9Cadd9 D MajorD Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
In God Family and Country...
Cadd9Cadd9
Ohhh we've got God...
D MajorD
Family...
And Country...