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G7b9   

G7b9    

                              -7    
This war we are waging    is already lost 
                                           -7
The cause for the fighting    has long been a ghost 
                            
Malice and habit    have now won the day 
                             Gsus4-3
The honours we fought for are lost in the fray 

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Standards and bugles are trod in the dust 
Wounds have burst open, and [bad word] 
Once proud and [bad word]  now humbled and bent 
Fires which burnt brightly, now energies spent

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 Bass down (G,F,Eb,D,C, Bb,A,G)
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Let down the curtain, and exit the play 
The crowds have gone home and the cast sailed away 
Our flowers and feathers as scarring as weapons 
Our poems and letters have turned to deceptions  

Solo on


 Bass down (G,F,Eb,D,C, Bb,A,G)
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