Chords for Courier

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_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] I [B] am a [E] courier _ _ _ _ crawling in the dirt toward _ [G] _ the front [D] line as the crow [E] flies, a note stashed
in my [B] shirt from _ the Prince of [E] Wales _
_ _ [C] _ far above the [E] field with _ [C] _ his marshals [A] _
and their chain
[E] mail, their banners taut [C] in the high.
_ _ [G] _ I did not ask him [D] what the note said, _ _ [E] _ he did not
offer [C] to explain, _ _ it's [E] not my job to ask the questions.
_ [B] I'm just a courier, _
_ _ [C] _ [A] just a [E] courier, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] a [A] flare shot [E] leaves a [B] scar _ _ [C] _
[E] burning in the dark _ _ [B] _
on my [E] forearms through [E] the barbed wire, _
another 50 [B] yards, _ _ _ _ [E] crouching in the trench, _ _ [C] _
[B] touching [E] bayonets, _ _ _ [B] a hundred men [D] all [A] need a chest,
[B] a hundred _ [C] _ [A] _ _ marionettes.
[G] I am the string [D] pulled by the shorthand,
_ [B] _ _
animating what [C] was still, _ _ _ _ I am invisible [D] and faithful, _ _ [C] _
[D] I am a _ [E] courier, _ _ [C] _
[B] just a _ [E] courier, _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
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[B] the captain breaks the seal, _ _ _ he [E] quickly reads the note, [B] _ _ _ _
on your feet [E] boys, make your peace boys, _
pass those letters down _ _ _ [Em] to this [E] courier, _ _ [C] _
[B] guardian [Em] of the world, _ _ [C] _
hand him all you've [D] seen,
_ hand him all [E] you've heard, hand him all [C] [B] your pearls, _ [G] and he'll go back to where [D] he came from,
_ [E] _ he will deliver each [C] by hand, _ _ _ he takes this as a point [Bm] of honor, _ _ [C] to be [Em] a [E] courier,
to _ [C] be [B] a [E] courier, _ _ [C] _ [D] to be a [E] courier. _ _ _ _ _
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