Chords for Christmas In The Trenches

My name is [C#] Francis [D] Tolliver.
_ [G] _ I come from [Em] Liverpool _
_ _ [A] Two years [C#] ago.
The war was [G] waiting for [D] me after school _ _ _ to Belgium and to Flanders
[G] _ [Bm] to Germany [Em] to here I
[A] _ _ Fought for [G] King and country.
I [D] loved _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Whose _ Christmas in the trenches _ where the frost so bitter home
_ _ [Bm] Frozen fields [A] of France were [D] still no Christmas song was [A] sung
_ [D] our families [G] back in England
[D] _ [G] Were toasting us [Em] that day
_ [A] They're brave and glorious lad so [D] far away. _ _ _
_ I
Was lying with [G] my mess [D] mate [G] on the cold and [Em] rocky ground
_ [A] When across [E] the lines of battle _ [G] came a most peculiar _ [D] sound
_ Says I now listen [G] up me [A] boys each soldier strained [Em] here _ [A] as one young
German voice sang out [D] so _ clear _ _
_ _ [A] _ Singing bloody.
Well, you know [D] my partner says to me
Soon [Bm] one by one each [A] German voice [G] joined in in [A] harmony _ _
the cannons rested _ [Bm] silent [D] the gas clouds rolled [Em] no more as
[A] Christmas brought us respite from
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_ _ _ _ [A] soon as they were finished
_ [G] Reverend [F#m] laws was [G] spent
_ [A] God rest he merry gentlemen
_ [G] Struck up some [D] lads from Kent.
Oh
The next day saying [Bm] was steely [D] knocked his [G] silent night says [Em] I
_ And [A] in two tongues one song filled up [G] that sky
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ As
Someone coming [G] towards us the front line sentry cried
_ [B] All sights were fixed on one lone figure trudging from their [A] side
_ [D] His truce flag [G] like a Christmas star shown on that [Em] plane
So bright as [A] he bravely strode on armed into [D] the night _ _
_ _ _ Then one [A] by one either side
_ [G] walked into no [E] man's land
_ _ [A] _ Neither gun nor bayonet [D] we [D] met their hand
_ _ We shared some secret _ brandy [G] and wished each other [Em] well
_ And in a [A] flare lit soccer game we gave him hell _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] We traded [D] chocolates cigarettes and photographs from home
_ [Bm] These sons and [A] fathers far away from [G] families of their [A] own
_ _ [D] Young Sanders played his [G] _ [G] squeezebox and they had [D] a violin
[Em] _ _ It's [A] curious and unlikely
[D] band of men _ _
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Soon daylights [C#] stole upon us [D] and France was France once [Em] more
_ [A] It's sad [D] farewells.
We each began to settle back to war
But the question haunted every heart that lived that [Em] wondrous night
_ [A] Whose _ family have I fixed within [D] my sights? _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ It's Christmas in the trenches
_ [G] Where the frost so [D] bitter hung
_ _ [Bm] _ Frozen [A] fields of France were warmed [G] as songs of peace were [A] sung
For [D] the walls they'd kept [G] between us to exact the work [Em] of war
Had [A] been crumbled and were gone _ [D] forevermore _ _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Oh
My name [C#] is Francis [G] Tolliver
[D] _ _ _ In Liverpool [E] I dwell
[G] _ _ [A] _
Each Christmas [G] comes since World War one.
I've [D] learned its lessons.
Well
_ But the ones [D] who call [G] the shots [D] won't be among the dead [E] and lame
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And [A] on each end of the rifle
_ _ [D] We're the same
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