Chords for Arlo Guthrie: When A Soldier Makes It Home (live)

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_ _ _ _ _ We're out [F#m] the world tonight _ [G] in a [A] strange and [D] foreign land.
_ _ [Bm] _ A soldier [F#m] packs his memories _ [G] as he leaves Afghanistan.
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] Back home they don't [F#m] know too much.
[G] There's just no way [A] to tell.
_ [D] I guess you had to [F#m] be there for to [G] know that war was hell.
_ _ And there won't be [Bm] any victory [G] _ [D] parades for those who's coming [G]
back.
_ _ [Bm] _ They'll fly them in at [F#m] midnight _ [G] and unload the body [A]
sacks.
_ [Bm] In the living room [F#m] they're walking down [G] a long and lonely [A] _ road.
_ _ _ [D] Because nobody seems [F#m] to care these days [G] when a [A] soldier leaves [D] it home.
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_ _ _ [D] _ They'll say it wasn't [F#m] easy, _ _ [G] just another [A] job [D] well done.
_ [Bm] As the government in [F#m]
Kabul falls, hear [G] the sounds of rebel [A] guns.
_ [Bm] And the faces of the [F#m] _
comrades being [G] blown out of [A] the sky.
_ [D] Leaves you bitter with the [F#m] feeling _ that [G] they didn't have to [A]
die.
_ [G] And there won't be [Bm] any [G] victory parades [D] for those who's [G] coming back.
_ [Bm] _ They'll fly them in [F#m] at midnight and [G] unload the body [A] sacks.
_ [Bm] In the living room they're [F#m] walking down [G] a long and lonely [A]
road.
_ _ _ _ [D] Because nobody seems [F#m] to care these days [G] when a [A] soldier leaves [D] it home.
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[D] _ _ _ _ Halfway around the world [F#m] tonight, [G] in this [A] strange and [D] foreign land.
_ _ [Bm] This soldier [F#m] unpacks memories [G] that he saved in [A] Vietnam.
_ _ _ [Bm] Back home they didn't [F#m] know too much, [G] there was just no way [A] to tell.
_ [D] I guess you had [F#m] to be there, _ [G] hard to know that war [A] was hell.
_ [G] And there [Bm] wasn't any [G] victory parades [D] for those who's made it [G]
back.
_ _ [Bm] They'll leave them in [F#m] at midnight _ [G] and unload all [A] the sacks.
_ [Bm] In the living room [F#m] they're walking down [G] a long [A] and lonely road.
_ _ _ _ [D] Because nobody seemed [F#m] to care back then [G] when a [A] soldier made [D] it home.
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_ _ _ [D] _ The night is [F#m] coming quickly _ [G] and the [A] stars are on [D] their way.
_ _ [Bm] As I stare into the [F#m]
evening _ [G] looking for the [A] words to say.
_ [Bm] I saw the lonely [F#m] soldier, _ just [G] a boy that's far from [A]
home.
And [D] I saw that I [F#m] was just like him, while [G] upon this earth [A] I roam.
_ [G] And there may not [Bm] be 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.
_ [Bm] And the heroes he had [F#m] following him, let [G] alone the [A] ones who _
[Am] won't.
[F#m] _ _ [A] _ [D] Which is why _ nobody [F#m] seems to care [G] when a [A] soldier makes it [D] home.
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