The War Is Over chords by Phil Ochs

Guitar chords with lyrics

B minorBm
Silent Soldiers on a silver screen,
G+G         E minorEm              - G+G             E minorEm
framed in fantasies and     dragged in dream.
A minorAm     D MajorD             G+G
Unpaid actors of the mystery,
A minorAm               D MajorD          E minorEm                        D MajorD
the mad director knows that freedom will not make you free.
E minorEm                              D MajorD
and what's this got to do with me ?
   FF                 C majorC            G+G        D MajorD
I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over.

B minorBm
Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand,
G+G       E minorEm                 - G+G       E minorEm
fading rhythms of a         fading land.
A minorAm         D MajorD                    G+G
Prove your courage in the proud parade,
A minorAm         D MajorD             E minorEm                        D MajorD
trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made,
E minorEm                              D MajorD
and they're afraid that I'm afraid
FF                     C majorC           G+G            D MajorD
I'm afraid the war is over, it's over, it's over.

B minorBm
Angry artists painting angry signs,
G+G         E minorEm                - G+G          E minorEm
use their vision just to       blind the blind.
A minorAm       D MajorD                 G+G
Poisoned players of a grizzly game,
A minorAm       D MajorD                  E minorEm                 D MajorD
one is guilty and the other gets the point to blame,
E minorEm                    D MajorD
pardon me, if I refrain
FF                    C majorC            G+G            D MajorD
I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over.

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B minorBm
So do your duty, boys, and join with pride,
G+G          E minorEm                  - G+G      E minorEm
serve your country in her        suicide.
A minorAm       D MajorD                         G+G
Find the flags so you can wave goodbye,
A minorAm                  D MajorD         E minorEm                        D MajorD
but just before the end even treason might be worth a try,
E minorEm                        D MajorD
this country is to young to die.
FF                    C majorC            G+G            D MajorD
I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over.

B minorBm
One-legged veterans will greet the dawn,
G+G                     E minorEm                     - G+G       E minorEm
and they're whistling marches as they        mow the lawn.
A minorAm                     D MajorD        G+G
And the gargoyles only sit and grieve,
A minorAm                D MajorD              E minorEm             D MajorD
the gypsy fortune teller told me that we'd been deceived,
E minorEm                          D MajorD
you only are what you believe.
FF                    C majorC            G+G        D MajorD
I believe the war is over, it's over, it's over.

D MajorD - C majorC - D MajorD         D MajorD - C majorC - D MajorD  ..

(Phil Ochs)