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1916 Chords by Sabaton

1916 chords by Sabaton

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • 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,
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🤘 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.

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