Chords for Danny Deever

[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ What are the bugles blowing _ for?
[D] Said Files on _ Parade.
To [Fm] turn you out, to turn you out, the [D] Colour Sergeant said.
_ What makes you look so white, so white?
Said Files on Parade.
_ _ I'm dreading what I've got to watch, the [C] Colour Sergeant _ [F] said.
_ For they're hanging Danny Deaver, you can [Bb] hear the dead march play. _
[F] The regiments in Hollow Square, _ [Bb] they're hanging him today. _ _
[F] They've taken all his [Bb] buttons off and [F] cut his [Bb] stripes _ away.
And [F] they're _ hanging _ [Bb] Danny Deaver [F] _ in [C] the _ _ _ _ [F] morning. _ _ _ _
_ _ What makes the rear rank breeds so hot?
[Bb] Said Files on _ Parade.
[F] It's bitter cold, it's bitter cold, the [Bb] Colour Sergeant _ said.
[Fm] What makes that front rank [Bb] man fall down?
[F] Said _ Files on [Bb] _ _ Parade.
[F] A touch of sun, [C] a touch [Bb] of sun, [Fm] the [C] Colour Sergeant _ [F] said.
They are hanging Danny Deaver, _ [Bb] they are marching of him _ round.
They [F] have halted Danny Deaver by his [Bb] coffin on the _ ground.
And [F] he'll swing in half [Bb] a minute for a [F] sneaking shooting [Bb] _ hound.
_ Oh, [F] they're hanging _ Danny [Bb] Deaver _ [F] in [C] the _
_ _ _ _ [F] morning. _ _
_ _ [Fm] His cot was right and cot to mine, [Bb] said Files on _ Parade.
_ [Fm] He's sleeping out and far tonight, the [Bb] Colour Sergeant _ said.
I've [Fm] drunk his beer a [Bb] score of times, said [Fm] _
Files [Bb] on _ Parade. _
[Fm] He's drinking bitter [C] beer [Bb] alone, [Fm] the Colour [C] _ Sergeant _ [Fm]
said.
They [F] are hanging Danny Deaver, [Bb] you must mark him to his _ _ place.
For [F] he shot a comrade sleeping, you must [Bb] look him in the _ face.
Nine [F] hundred [Bb] of his county and [F] the _ regiment's [Bb] disgrace.
_ _ _ While [F] they're hanging _ _ [Bb] Danny Deaver [F] _ in [C] the _ _ _ _ [Dm] morning.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
What's that so black again, the sun, said [D] _ Files on _ Parade.
_ _ [Fm] It's Danny fighting hard for life, [D] the Colour Sergeant said.
_ _ [F] What's that that _ [D] whimpers overhead, _ [Fm] said Files on [Bb] Parade.
_ _ [Fm] It's Danny's soul that's passing [D] _
now, [Fm] the [C] Colour Sergeant _
[F] _ said.
For they're done with Danny Deaver, you [Bb] can hear the quickstep _ play.
_ [F] The regiment's in column, _ [Bb] they're marching us away.
All [F] the young _ [Bb] recruits are shaking _ and [F] they'll want their [Bb] beer today. _ _
_ After [F] _ hanging _ Danny [Bb] _ Deaver [F] _ in [C] the _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] morning.
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