Chords for Bob Dylan - John Brown (Live at the Gaslight, 1962)

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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] I don't want to fight [D] on a _ _ foreign shore
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When John Brown went off to war
To fight on a foreign shore
His mother sure was proud of him _ _ _ _ _
_ As he stood so straight and tall
In his [C] uniform [G] and all
His mother's [Em] face broke out all to [G] a grin
_ Oh son you look so fine
I'm glad you're a son of mine _ _
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_ _ _ _ You make me proud to know you hold a gun
_ _ Do what the captain says
Lots of medals you will get
He'll [C] put them on the wall when you [G] come home _
_ _ _ _ When that old train pulled out
John's mom began to shout _
Tellin' everybody in the whole neighborhood _ _
That's my son's about to go
He's a [C] soldier now you [G] know
She made well [C] sure her neighbors [G] understood
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Oh [Am] Lord _ _ [G] _ understood
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_ _ She got a letter once in a while
And her [C] face broke into a _ smile
As she showed them [G] to the people from next door _
_ _ _ _ _ And she bragged [F] about [C] her son
With his [G] uniform and gun
And they think she [Em] called it good old [G] fashioned war
And _ _ _ _ the letters ceased to come
For a long time they never come _
_ They ceased to come for [C] about nine months or [G]
more
_ _ _ _ _ Then the letter [G] finally came
Sayin' get down and meet the train
Your son's a comin' home from the war
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ Oh [Am]
Lord from the war _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well she smiled and went right down
She looked [C] up and all around
_ [G] _ But she did not see her [C] soldier son in sight
_ But [G] as all the people passed
She saw her son at last
When she did she could hardly believe her eyes
_ _ His face was all shot up
And his hands were both blown off
And he wore [D] a metal brace around [G] his waist _
He whispered kinda slow
In a voice she did not know
_ Why she could not [C] even recognize [G] his face _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh my darlin' son tell me
What to you they done _ _
How is it that [C] you come to be [G] this way _
_ _ _ _ _ His mouth could hardly move
As he tried his best to talk _
And she did not even [C] recognize [G] his voice
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_ _ _ _ Oh don't you remember [D] Ma
When I went off to war _
He thought it was the best thing I could do
_ _ I was on the _ battlegrounds
Well [Em] home a-feelin' [G] proud
_ Thank God you wasn't [C] standin' in my shoes
Cause _ _ _ _ I thought when I was there
God what am I doin' here
_ _ I'm tryin' to kill my enemy or die trying
But as the enemy came close
The thing that hurt me most
Is I saw that his face looked just like mine
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Am] Lord, Lord
[G] Just like _ mine _
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_ _ And I could not help but think
Through the sudden sound and stink
_ _ That I was just a puppet in a play _ _
But through the roaring smoke
The string had finally broke
And a cannon ball blew my eyes away _
As _ _ _ _ _ _ he turned away to walk
His Ma was still in shock
Seeing the [G] metal brace that helped him stand
But as he turned to go
He [Em] called his mother [G] close
And he dropped his [C] medals down [G] into her hand
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Oh [Am] _ _ _ [G] Lord, Jeremy
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