Safe Behind The Wire chords by John Schumann

Chords with lyrics

Safe Behind The Wire


Intro

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When the bodies were bagged and the telegrams sent
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And the very last chopper had gone
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And you looked out the window of the 707 on the airfield in Saigon,
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Some of us thought that the war was over
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Some of us couldn?t care less;
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But you came home and threw a stay-behind party to try to clear up the mess.

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I don?t know where you are tonight..I?m down here in a firefight?
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But where-ever you are, I hope you?re safe behind the wire.

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We were fighting for freedom in South-East Asia?. That?s how the story ran;
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Windy speeches about a domino falling from China into Vietnam?
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But look back in sickness and anger,  Australia didn?t honour her debt;
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And non-commission Officer Thompson learned that the war wasn?t over yet.


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Living on your nerves, living on the phone and sleeping in airports far from home?.
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Dusted off now and safe behind the wire.


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Well he have and he gave and he kept on giving, till he just couldn?t give anymore;
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And he gave it away one morning in Sydney in a rust-red Commodore?

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And I remember Phill best talking on the phone, with a cheeky grin on his face?.
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Because Royal Commissioners and Knights of the Realm
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Thought that Phill didn?t know his place.

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I don?t know where you are tonight..I?m down here in a firefight?
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But where-ever you are, I hope you?re safe behind the wire.

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And the?re still bagging bodies, Phill, though fourteen years have gone;
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And the mums and the dads and the wives and the kids still have to soldier on.

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I don?t know where you are tonight..I?m down here in a firefight?
F# minorF#m                  G+G  A augmentedA     D MajorD
But where-ever you are, I hope you?re safe behind the wire.

    G+G        D MajorD      A augmentedA          D MajorD
I don?t know where you are tonight..I?m down here in a firefight?
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