The Isonzo Waltz chords by John Statz

Chords with lyrics

INTRO: DmDm C majorC FF (4x)

DmDm       C majorC        FF
Seven thousand men crossed the river today
  DmDm      C majorC     FF
And none of them came back across
 DmDm    C majorC     FF
[All lost there be] Isonzo today
     DmDm      C majorC        FF   DmDm C majorC FF  DmDm C majorC FF
And we'll send more as soon as they're gone


 DmDm        C majorC     FF
[ ? ] our loss too old and so fair
    DmDm     C majorC     FF
On the day of our wedding it rained
     DmDm     C majorC     FF
Now, they told me to cross the Isonzo today
   DmDm     C majorC    FF
And I shall never see her again

CHORUS:
   A minorAm             C majorC
Three days, three days passed the river they set
  A minorAm   FF     C majorC
The city of Trentine alight
A minorAm              C majorC
Take it, you can, you'll be among her best men
    A minorAm             G+G
And the nation will watch you Do or Die


INSTRUMENTAL: DmDm C majorC FF (4x)


DmDm    C majorC      FF
Not even make it, ten minutes or so
    DmDm     C majorC     FF
We were cut down by enemy fire
DmDm       C majorC     FF
Wounded on the banks of Isonzo today
    DmDm     C majorC      FF
And I'm glad no one can hear me cry


  DmDm    C majorC      FF
The river ran red and the stench of the dead
     DmDm     C majorC      FF
Were the last senses left to the mind
DmDm    C majorC     FF
Carried away on the gurney that day
     DmDm      C majorC     FF
Crossing back o'er the river I died


CHORUS:
   A minorAm             C majorC
Three years, three years on that river they fought
A minorAm    FF       C majorC
Many more men lost their lives
  A minorAm       C majorC
In 1918 there was finally peace
      A minorAm          G+G
While in a graveyard in Venice I lie