Chords for Arlo Guthrie/When A Soldier Makes It Home

[G] Wavy Gravy was right.
_ _ _ [N] _
Wavy _ _ said if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I look back on some of those times much more fondly than I remember being in them.
[D] I _ [A] remember a couple [D] of things.
[A] I remember there was always something else.
Some new crisis, some other movement or something, [D] some new issue.
_ A million things all [C#] going on at [Bm] once and everybody had to choose up sides it seemed like on [G] everything.
_ And I came out of that whole time thinking _ I'd only met two different kinds of people. _ _
There's people that give a damn and people that don't.
_ And the truth was you could [N] find both of those kinds of people on every side of every issue.
And in the long run I thought you might even have more in common with people that care about stuff
than you do with people who side with you on an issue or two as they're going through time.
_ Which is a long way of saying I made some friends that I didn't expect to make [A]
over all these [D] years.
And some of them are here tonight.
Some of them I actually [G] know.
_ _ _ _ So here's a song for some friends. _ _ _ _
Like a [C] lot of folk songs, this [B] one is _ not just overdue but already outdated.
[D] _ _ [Dm] Wrote it before [G] the war in the Gulf was getting thought about. _ _
But I think the feeling holds up and goes [D] something like this. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ It's a song about a soldier.
Halfway around the [F#m] world tonight
_ [G] In a [A] strange and [D] foreign land _
_ _ [Bm] A soldier packs his [F#m] memory
As he [G] leaves Afghanistan
[A] _ _
[Bm] Back _ home they [F#m] don't know too much
[G] There's just no way [D] to [A] tell _
[D] I guess you had [F#m] to be there
To [G] know that war [A] was here _
[G] And there won't [D] be any [G] victory parades
[D] For those just coming [G] back
[Bm] To _ fly them in at [F#m] midnight
[G] And unload the body [D] [A] sacks _
[Bm] In the living well they're [F#m] walking down
A [G] long, long _ [A] road _
_ _ Because [D] _ nobody seems to [F#m] care these days
[G] When a soldier [A]
leaves it [D] all
_ _ [F#m] They'll _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ say it wasn't [F#m] easy _ _
[G] Just another [A] child [D] well done _ _
_ [Bm] As the government in [F#m] Congo falls
Hear the [G] sounds of rebel [D] guns
[A] _
And [Bm] the faces of [F#m] the comrades _
[G] Being blown out of the [A] sky
Leaves [D] you bitter with the [F#m] feeling _
That [G] they didn't have to _ [A] die
[G] And there won't be [Bm] any victory [G] _
[D] parades
For those just coming [G] _ _ back
[Bm] _ To fly them in at [F#m] midnight _
[G] And unload the [D] body [A] sacks
[Bm] In the living well they're [F#m] walking down
A [G] long, long _ [A] road _
_ _ Because [D] _ nobody seems to [F#m] care these days
[G] When a soldier [A]
leaves it [D] all
_ _ [F#m] _ Halfway _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ around the world [F#m] tonight _
[G] In a [A] strange and [D] foreign land
_ [Bm] A soldier unpacks [F#m] memories
That [G] he saved from Vietnam
[D] _ _ [A] _
_ [Bm] Back home they didn't [F#m] know too much
There [G] was just no way to [D] tell
[A] _
[D] I guess you had to be [F#m] there
Hard [G] to know that war [A] was here _
[G] And there wasn't any [Bm] victory [G] parades
[D] For those that made it [G] back _
[Bm] To fly them in at [F#m] midnight _
And [G] unload all [D] the sacks
[A] _
[Bm] In the living well [D] they're [F#m] walking down
[G] A long and [A] lonely road
_ _ Because _ [D] nobody seems [F#m] to care back then
[G] When a [A] soldier made [D] it home
_ [F#m] The _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ night is coming [F#m] quickly _
[G] And the [A] stars are on their [D] way _
[Bm] As I stare into the [F#m] evening _
[G] Looking for the words to [A] say _
[Bm] That I saw the lonely soldier
[F#m] _
Just [G] a boy that's far from [D] home
[A]
And [D] I saw that I [F#m] was just like him
While [G] upon this earth [D] I _ [A]
roamed
[G] And there may not be [Bm] any [G] victory parades
If [D] I ever make [G] it back _
As I [Bm] come home _ [F#m] undercover _
To [G] a world that can't [A] keep track
Of [Bm] every hero's he has [F#m] fallen _
Let [G] alone the [A] ones who _ _ _ won't
_ [D] Which is why nobody [F#m] seems to care
[G] When a [A] soldier makes it [D] home
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