Chords for 1917-the French Prostitute,wrtiiten by David Olney,sung by Niamh Parsons.

[C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
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Oh yeah. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ Strange _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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young man [Cm] who comes to me, a [D] soldier [Gm] on a three day spree, who needs one [Cm] night's
sleep, and I'm not sure what to do.
He's got a cheap ecstasy, _ and [D] loving [Gm] arms to hide him. _ _
He greets me [Cm] with a courtly bow, [Dm] he hides [Gm] his pain my acting proud, but he drinks too
much [Cm] and he laughs [C] too loud.
[D] _
How [Gm] can I deny it?
[Am] _ [Bb] _
Let us [F] dance beneath the [Cm] moon, I'll sing to [Gm] you, let alone.
[Am] _
[Bb] _ Morning always [F] comes too soon, [Gm] but tonight the war is over. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ He speaks to me [Cm] in schoolboy French, [G] of a [Am] [Gm] soldier's life inside a trench, and the look
of death, [Cm] and the god's feast stench, [Dm] I do my [Gm] best to please him.
_ _ He puts two roses [Cm] _ in a vase, _ [D] two roses [Gm] sadly out of place, like the god's smile [Cm] on his
hired face, [D] _ playfully [Gm] I tease him.
_ [Am] _ [Bb] _ Hold me in [F] the Paris sky, [Cm] _ let's not talk [Gm] of how and [Am] why, [Bb] _ tomorrow is [F] soon enough to die,
_ [G] but [D] tonight the [Gm] war is over. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ We make love [Cm] too hard, too [D] fast, he falls asleep, [Gm] his face a mask, then he wakes with
the shakes [Cm] and knitterings from his [D] flask, I put my [G] arms around him.
[Gm] Oh they die in the trenches, [Cm] and they [C] die in the air, [Gm] in [D] Belgium [Gm] and France the dead
are everywhere, and they die so fast, [Cm] there's no time to prepare [Gm] a decent grave to surround [Am] them.
[Bb] _ Old world [F] glory, old world [Cm] fame, [C] the old [Gm] world's gone and up in [Am] flames, [Bb] _ nothing will [F] ever be
the same, [Dm] and nothing [Gm] lasts more [G] ever.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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_ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
Oh I pray [G] for him, [Cm] but I've forgotten how, _ [Dm] and there's nothing [Gm] that can save him now,
but there's always [G] another with [Cm] the same courtly bow, [D] and who am I [Gm] to deny him? _
[Am] _ [Bb] Let our [F] stars be the moon, [Cm] I'll sing to [Gm] you, let [Am] loose, [Bb] the morning always [F] comes too soon,
[D] tonight [Gm] the war is over.
_ [G] La la la [Cm] la, la la la, _ [D] la la [Gm] la [A] la la la, [G] _ la la [Cm] la [C] la, _ _
[D] _ tonight the [G] war is over.
[Eb] _ _ _ [A] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _