The Things That I Have Seen chords by Richard Shindell

Chords with lyrics

Richard Shindell - The Things That I Have Seen


CAPO: 3rd Fret


INTRO: A minorAm G+G  (4x)

   A minorAm       C majorC       G+G
I was proud to be the soldier I had been since '83
    A minorAm        FF        E MajorE
When I joined to pay for college, like my brothers before me
   A minorAm        C majorC       G+G
I was proud to serve my country and to be a fine Marine
  A minorAm       FF        E MajorE            A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G
But pride cannot protect me from the things that I have seen

     A minorAm          C majorC    G+G
When they shipped us out of Norfolk, my family came to wave
  A minorAm        FF        E MajorE
My Mama stood there choking back the tears and looking brave
  A minorAm       C majorC          G+G
And though we never spoke of it, we all feared it just the same
     A minorAm        FF       E MajorE         A minorAm G+G
Now they tell me I should talk about the things that I have seen


   FF                  G+G          A minorAm
I was trained to take the good shot, I was trained to clean my gun
   FF                  E minorEm        FF
They trained me not to talk back and they trained me not to run
     A minorAm        C majorC       G+G
And I was trained to be as silent as the shadow of a hawk
    A minorAm         FF       E MajorE         A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G
No one trained me for the silence of the things that I have seen


  A minorAm      C majorC      G+G
And once I saw an accident on Old Route 17
   A minorAm           FF     E MajorE
Mama told me not to look at it, as we slowly passed the scene
      A minorAm      C majorC      G+G
Though the image of that wreckage was burned into my brain
A minorAm       FF        E MajorE         A minorAm G+G
That did not prepare me for the things that I have seen


 FF              G+G       A minorAm
I thought I was a good man, I thought I was elite
 FF                     E minorEm     FF
I thought I'd fight the good fight, that I'd never see defeat
       A minorAm       C majorC      G+G
And that we'd won that bloody war, how we laughed at their retreat
   A minorAm      FF         E MajorE         A minorAm  G+G
Now I wage a losing battle against the things that I have seen


INSTRUMENTAL: A minorAm G+G (7x)


    A minorAm     C majorC      G+G
Just be glad modern science has given us so much
    A minorAm        FF        E MajorE
We can rifle through the channels without ever standing up
   A minorAm      C majorC       G+G
But I can't find a station that's finally had enough
    A minorAm     FF        E MajorE         A minorAm  G+G
Of this morbid fascination with the things that I have seen
  A minorAm        FF         E MajorE         FF  G+G
And me, I can't stop dreaming of these things that I have seen


OUTRO: A minorAm G+G (4x)