The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard chords by Roger Waters

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G minorGm

Intro:

G7sus4G7sus4    Gmb6    G7sus4G7sus4  Gmb6
Gmb6     Cm7/G    D/AD/A
Gsus2Gsus2    Eb/BbEb/Bb    Gmb6   D/AD/A
Gsus2Gsus2
FF  Eb/BbEb/Bb  Gmb6 Dm/A Eb/BbEb/Bb   FF



Spoken word: Alf Razzell:
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 Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to collect the paybooks
  FF      Eb/BbEb/Bb      Cm7/G    Gsus2Gsus2
And when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land
Gsus2Gsus2         FF
 I was picked up and taken into their trench
Eb/BbEb/Bb          Cm7/G                      Gsus2Gsus2
 And I'd no sooner taken two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call
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"Hello Razz
I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here," and he said
       Gsus2Gsus2                       FF
"I'm feeling bad," and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in England
          Eb/BbEb/Bb
One of the original battalion
 Cm7/G                Gsus2Gsus2
I had a look at his wound, rolled him over
I could see it was probably a fatal wound
     Eb/BbEb/Bb                         Gsus2Gsus2
You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat
  FF                   Eb/BbEb/Bb
And after I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been
         Cm7/G              Eb/BbEb/Bb
Had there been a path or a road I could have done better
                   Cm7/G                 D/AD/A
He pummeled me, "Put me down, put me down
I'd rather die
I'd rather die, put me down"
Gsus2Gsus2  FF  Eb/BbEb/Bb  Cm7/G           Gsus2Gsus2
             I was hoping he would faint
n.c.
He said "I can't go any further, let me die"
n.c.
I said "If I leave you here Bill you won"t be found, let's have another go"
Gsus2Gsus2           FF           Eb/BbEb/Bb
 He said "All right then" And the same thing happened
                      Eb/BbEb/Bb              Cm7/G  D/AD/A
He couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land


Chord variants:
G7sus4G7sus4 355532
Gmb6  365343
Gsus2Gsus2  355000
Ebm/Bb x11343