1916 chords by Sabaton

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: A minorAm

🤘 Intro:

A minorAm


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

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

🤘 Solo:
  A augmentedA         E MajorE         D MajorD          A augmentedA
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|-----9-9b10-9----|--------------------|17-----------|
BB|-------------------|12------------12-|10---12-12b14-12-10-|-------------|
G+G|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|

  A augmentedA         E MajorE           D MajorD           A augmentedA
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|--------9-10-10-9----|-----------9----14-12-|10-9---8b9-|
BB|-------------------|12---12-----------12-|10---10-12---12-------|-----------|
G+G|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
D MajorD|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
E MajorE|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|

A augmentedA

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

Outr0:
FF             Csus2Csus2 C majorC
And that’s how it is for a sold ier.