The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard chords by Roger Waters

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Gm

Intro:

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Gsus2        Eb/Bb       Gmb6      D/A
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F    Eb/Bb   Gmb6  Dm/A  Eb/Bb     F




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
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And when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land
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 I was picked up and taken into their trench
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 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
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"I'm feeling bad," and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in England
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One of the original battalion
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I had a look at his wound, rolled him over
I could see it was probably a fatal wound
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You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat
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And after I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been
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Had there been a path or a road I could have done better
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He pummeled me, "Put me down, put me down
I'd rather die
I'd rather die, put me down"
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                          I was hoping he would faint
n.c.
He said "I can't go any further, let me die"
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I said "If I leave you here Bill you won"t be found, let's have another go"
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 He said "All right then" And the same thing happened
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He couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land

Chord variants:
G7sus4  355532
Gmb6    365343
Gsus2   355000
Ebm/Bb  x11343