Far Afghanistan chords by James Taylor

Chords with lyrics

FAR AFGHANISTAN - JAMES TAYLOR
"Before This World"(2015)
Submitted by ClassicalfreaK


INTRO (lower case: individual notes, not chords)
f#-a - B5B5
d-e-a - B5B5

B minorBm    A/C#A/C# D MajorD      A augmentedA    F# minorF#m B minorBm
Back home Indiana, we just learn to get along
G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD        A minorAm          Em9Em9
Civilized and socialized they teach you right from wrong
G+G   A augmentedA     D MajorD     A augmentedA        C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
How to hold your liquor and how to hold your tongue
B minorBm   A/C#A/C# D MajorD     A augmentedA   F# minorF#m B minorBm
How to hold a woman or a baby or a gun

  B minorBm   A/C#A/C#  D MajorD        A augmentedA  F# minorF#m  B minorBm
But nothing will prepare you for the far Afghanistan
    G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD      A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
You can listen to their stories and pick up what you can
  G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD       A augmentedA       C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
You listen to their stories maybe read a book or two
 B minorBm      A/C#A/C# D MajorD     G+G    A augmentedA    F# minorF#m  B minorBm
Until they send you out there, man you haven?t got a clue

C# minorC#m  A augmentedA   C# minorC#m       A augmentedA     C# minorC#m  A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Oh the Hindu Kush, the Band-e Amir, the Hazara

   B minorBm    A/C#A/C# D MajorD       A augmentedA    F# minorF#m  B minorBm E/B B minorBm
They tell you a tradition in the hills of Kandahar
     G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD      A augmentedA       F# minorF#m
They say young boys are taken to the wilderness out there
G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD     A augmentedA        C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
Taken to the mountain alone and in the night
B minorBm  A/C#A/C#   D MajorD        A augmentedA     F# minorF#m  B minorBm
If he makes it home alive they teach him how to fight

   B minorBm     A/C#A/C#  D MajorD       A augmentedA    F# minorF#m    B minorBm
They fought against the Russians, they fought against the Brits
      G+G     A augmentedA  D MajorD       A augmentedA       F# minorF#m
Hell, they fought old Alexander, talking ?bout him ever since
  G+G   A augmentedA D MajorD   A augmentedA        C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
And after 9/11 here comes your Uncle Sam
 B minorBm   A/C#A/C#  D MajorD       A augmentedA   F# minorF#m B minorBm
Another painful lesson in the far Afghanistan

C# minorC#m A augmentedA C# minorC#m A augmentedA C# minorC#m A augmentedA
C# minorC#m A augmentedA F# minorF#m B minorBm E/B B minorBm

   B minorBm  A/C#A/C# D MajorD       A augmentedA  F# minorF#m  B minorBm
I was ready to be terrified and ready to be mad
   G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD       A augmentedA     F# minorF#m
I was ready to be homesick, the worst I?ve ever had
 G+G    A augmentedA   D MajorD      A augmentedA      C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
I expected to be hated and insulted to my face
  B minorBm   A/C#A/C#  D MajorD         A augmentedA   F# minorF#m  B minorBm
But nothing could prepare me for the beauty of the place

  B minorBm     A/C#A/C# D MajorD       A augmentedA    F# minorF#m   B minorBm
No matter what they tell you, all soldiers talk to God
    G+G    A augmentedA   D MajorD   A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
It?s a private conversation written in your blood
  G+G    A augmentedA D MajorD       A augmentedA    C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
The enemy?s no different, bad-ass holy wind
   B minorBm    A/C#A/C# D MajorD          A augmentedA    F# minorF#m  B minorBm
That crazy bastard talks to God and his God talks back to him

E/G# A augmentedA C# minorC#m F# minorF#m B minorBm
B5B5
(solo)