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What Did You Do In The War Dad Chords by Sonata Arctica

What Did You Do In The War Dad chords by Sonata Arctica

Guitar chords with lyrics

Intro:

 Am                    F                    Am                   G
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B|-13--12-12-13-12-10-|-13--12-12-13-12-10-|-13--12-12-13-12-13-|-13---12---12-------|
G|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
D|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
A|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
E|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|

Am Am Am E
Am Am Am E

Gm                          Eb
Dad, what did you do in the war?
                    Gm
Something to answer for?
                    F
You say too young I am to know
Gm                         Eb
Dad, I've heard you cry at night
                       Gm
Mournful and desperate blight
                         F
Where did you learn that song you sing

Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F
Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F

Cm               Eb
"War is in me! I was the war!
         Gm                      F
And your praying brings back the suffering
    Cm            Eb       Gm
No, please, don't start to cry
Cm          Eb
I only pray you'll never know
             Gm               F
The things I see every time I close my eyes
Cm     Eb         Gm F
Angels still have faces"

Gm
What did you do in the war, dad, tell me
Eb                           Bb       F
Why can't you smile when the children sing
        Gm       Eb           Bb      F
Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings
         Gm          Eb           Bb
And your soul is now torn, unlike mine
       Cm         Bb          Eb
Do you fear yesterday will in someway
  F
Define the life of your child?

Am  Am  Am  E
Am  Am  Am  E
F#m F#m F#m C#
F#m F#m F#m C#
F#m

Gm                              Eb
Dad, I know what you did in the war
                   Gm
Deeds devils would abhor
                   F
Did you filfil the oath you swore?

Gm                     Eb
Dad, did you do it for me?
                           Gm
Their blood for my life to live
                  F
In the hollow without reprieve, without you

Cm               Eb
"War is in me! I am the war!
          Gm                   F
Don't you force me to live the nightmare again!
Cm            Eb      Gm
Please, don't make my cry
        Cm             Eb
My son, you never ever want to know
         Gm                  F
How when guarding your sleep serene I hear
    Cm      Eb     Gm           F
The silence of the children who sang"

Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F

Gm        D        Eb
Far and beyond the stars there's
  Bb                  Cm
A place where all the love,
        D                 Eb           F
All the goodness we could have still resides
       Gm          D             Eb   Bb
But we choose life away from the light
        Cm             D           Eb
You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your
F

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