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1916 by Sabaton

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  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Key: Chord diagramA minorAm

🤘 Intro:

Chord diagramA minorAm


🤘 Verse 1:
Chord diagramA augmentedA                        Chord diagramE MajorE
Sixteen years old when I went to the war,
   Chord diagramD MajorD                        Chord diagramA augmentedA
To fight for a land fit for heroes,
Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramE MajorE
God on my side, and a gun in my hand,
Chord diagramD MajorD                       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Chasing my days down to zero,
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                Chord diagramE MajorE
And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,
      Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
And I never did get any older,
      Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramE MajorE
But I knew at the time that a year in the line,
      Chord diagramD MajorD                      Chord diagramA augmentedA
Was a long enough life for a soldier,

🤘 Verse 2:
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramE MajorE
We all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,
       Chord diagramD MajorD                      Chord diagramA augmentedA
And we added two years to our ages,
Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Eager for life and ahead of the game,
Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Ready for history’s pages,
       Chord diagramA augmentedA                            Chord diagramE MajorE
And we brawled and we fought and we whored ’til we stood,
Chord diagramD MajorD                        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
  Chord diagramA augmentedA                           Chord diagramE MajorE
Chord diagramA augmentedA thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,
    Chord diagramD MajorD                               Chord diagramA augmentedA
And that’s what you are when you’re soldiers,

🤘 Solo:
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE                 Chord diagramD MajorD                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|-----9-9b10-9----|--------------------|17-----------|
Chord diagramBB|-------------------|12------------12-|10---12-12b14-12-10-|-------------|
Chord diagramG+G|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|

   Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE                     Chord diagramD MajorD                      Chord diagramA augmentedA
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|--------9-10-10-9----|-----------9----14-12-|10-9---8b9-|
Chord diagramBB|-------------------|12---12-----------12-|10---10-12---12-------|-----------|
Chord diagramG+G|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|

Chord diagramA augmentedA

🤘 Verse 3:
Chord diagramC majorC                             Chord diagramG+G
I heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,
         Chord diagramFF                            Chord diagramC majorC
Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother,
      Chord diagramC majorC                     Chord diagramG+G
And I fell by his side, and that’s how we died,
Chord diagramFF                          Chord diagramC majorC
Clinging like kids to each other,
      Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramG+G
And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,
      Chord diagramFF                     Chord diagramC majorC
And I wept as his body grew colder,
      Chord diagramC majorC                        Chord diagramG+G
And I called for my mother and she never came,
          Chord diagramA#A#                    Chord diagramFF
Though it wasn’t my fault and I wasn’t to blame,
Chord diagramC majorC                               Chord diagramG+G
And the day’s not half over and ten thousand slain,
    Chord diagramA#A#                 Chord diagramFF
And now there’s nobody remembers our names

Outr0:
Chord diagramFF                          Chord diagramCsus2Csus2 Chord diagramC majorC
And that’s how it is for a sold  ier.

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