Red Army Blues by The Waterboys
The Waterboys - Red Army Blues
Harmonica:
7 6- 7 7- 6
7 7- 6- 7- 7 8 7- 6
RED ARMY BLUES
Intro: Am - Em - Am - Em - F - Em - F - C - G 2x
Soft guitar sliding intro:
Am Em Am Em
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F Em F C G
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Saxofoon lick:
Am F G Em Am F G Em
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Am F G Em Am F G Em
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VERSE 1
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Am F
When I left my home and my family
G Em
My mother said to me
Am F
"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
G Em
It's how many people you set free"
Am F
So I packed my bags, brushed my cap
G Em
Walked out into the world
Am F
Seventeen years old,
G Em
Never kissed a girl
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SAX
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Am F G Em X2
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VERSE 2
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Am F
Took the train to Voronezh
G Em
That was as far as it would go
Am F
Changed my sax for a uniform,
G Em
Bit my lip against the snow
Am F
I prayed for Mother Russia
G Em
In the summer of '43
Am F
And as we drove the Germans back
G Em
I really believed that God was listening to me
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SAX
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Am F G Em X2
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VERSE 3
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Am F
Now we howled into Berlin
G Em
Tore the smoking buildings down
Am F
Raised the Red Flag high
G Em
Burnt the Reichstag brown
Am F
I saw my first American
G Em
Well he looked a lot like me
Am F
He had the same kind of farmer's face
G Em
Said he come from some place called Hazard, Tennessee
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SAX
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Am F G Em X4
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VERSE 4
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Am F
When the war was over
G Em
My discharge papers came
Am F
Me and twenty hundred others
G Em
Went to Stettiner for the train
Am F
"Kiev!" said the Commissar
G Em
"from there your own way home"
Am F
I never got to Kiev
G Em
We never came back home
Am F
Train went north to the Taiga
G Em
Were stripped and marched in file
Am F
Up the Great Siberian road
G Em
For miles and miles and miles and miles
Am F
Dressed in stripes and tatters
G Em
In a Gulag left to die
Am F
All because Comrade Stalin was scared
G Em
that we'd become too westernized!
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SAX
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Am F G Em X8
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VERSE 5
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Am F
Used to love my country
G Em
Used to feel so young
Am F
Used to believe that life
G Em
Was the best song ever sung
Am F
I would have died for my country
G Em
In 1945
Am F G Em
But now only one thing remains X4
G Em Am
The brute will to survive
Am F G Em X2
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SAX
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Am F G Em X8
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London April 1982
On "A Pagan Place" and "The Whole Of The Moon"
Tabbed by woutermoscou
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