1916 chords by Sabaton

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Am

🤘 Intro:

Am


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

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

🤘 Solo:
  A         E         D          A
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|-----9-9b10-9----|--------------------|17-----------|
B|-------------------|12------------12-|10---12-12b14-12-10-|-------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
D|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
A|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|
E|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------|

  A         E           D           A
e|-9---10-10b12-10-9-|--------9-10-10-9----|-----------9----14-12-|10-9---8b9-|
B|-------------------|12---12-----------12-|10---10-12---12-------|-----------|
G|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
D|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
A|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|
E|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------|-----------|

A

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

Outr0:
F             Csus2 C
And that’s how it is for a sold ier.