Child Soldiers chords by Suzanne Becking

Strumming: Suggested ↓ ↓ ↓↑↓ ↓↑↓
Tuning: Standard

♫ Intro:


Am  F  Am  F
Dm  E  E7


♫ Verse:

    Am
The rebels found you

              F
you wanted to run,
    Am
You promised a good life,
            F
 decided to take the gun.
G

Walking for miles and miles,
    C
all day and all night,
G
Struggling to survive, with
C
strangers by your side.
Am
Forced into combat,
                 F
saw many friends die,
Am
Now you realize, it's
        F
all one big lie.


♫ Chorus:

G        F         C
Child soldiers, in Africa
G        F          C
Child soldiers, in Ethiopia
G        F             C
Child soldiers, Sierra Leone
G        F             C
Child soldiers, in the Congo


♫ Verse:

    Am
The rebels fooled you,
                F
you need to get out,
   Am
In war there's no winners,
              F
you're better off without.
G
Walking for miles and miles

    C
all day and all night,
G
Find a safer place,
      C
where you can be all right.
Am
People don't want you,
             F
there are no jobs,
Am
Got to live in the streets,
              F
the nightmare never stops.


♫ Chorus:

G        F         C
Child soldiers, in Asia
G        F         C
Child soldiers, in Myanmar
G        F         C
Child soldiers, in India
G        F         C
Child soldiers, in Bangladesh


♫ Solo:

Am  F  Am  F
Dm  E


♫ Verse:

    Am                          F
The rebels took your innocence away,
    Am
The right to be a child,
             F
to learn, to love, to play.
G
Once you lived to fight,
        C
now you fight to live,
       G
You'll have to forget,
       C
you'll have to forgive.
Am
You have to show them, you can work
           F
with those hands,
       Am
'Cause everybody deserves
  F
a second chance.


♫ Chorus:

G        F          C
Child soldiers, in America
G        F           C
Child soldiers, in Colombia
G        F             C
Child soldiers, in Nicaragua
G        F         C
Child soldiers, in Mexico


♫ Outro:

G F C


Chords used in Child Soldiers by Suzanne Becking:
Am, F, Dm, E, E7, G, C