Chords for Day After Tomorrow

_ _ _ I hate to sound cynical, _ _ but it seems to me that protest songs are like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. _ _ _
It's hard to believe that a song like that is going to make any difference in the course we're on.
_ But at the same time, that Pete Seeger song about the big muddy became more than a song.
_ I don't want to contribute to the rhetoric or even assume I have the ability to speak about these things on an intelligent level.
_ I know my own limitations.
_ _ I can sound like I know a lot about something for five minutes.
_ _ Don't stay too long.
_ Or I slide into idiot.
But _ _ I also know that everybody feels like we're going 90 miles an hour down a dead end street.
_ And we didn't make that feeling up.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _
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I got your letter today. _ _
And I miss you oh so [F] much here. _
_ I can't wait to see you all. _
[C] And I'm counting the [Gb] days, dear.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _
I still believe _ that [G] there's gold _ _ [C] at the end of the [F] world.
_ _ _ And I'll [C] come home _ _ to Illinois _ [Am] _
_ [C] on the day after [D] tomorrow.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
It is so hard. _ _
And it's [C] cold here.
_ [G] _ [C] And I'm tired of [F] taking orders.
[G] _ _ _ _
[Am] And I miss _ old [C] Rockford town _ up by the _ [G] Wisconsin border. _ _ _
[F] What I miss, _ you [C] won't believe.
_ _ Shoveling snow and _ raking leaves. _ _ _ _
And my plane _ [G] will [C] touch down [G] _
_ [C] on the day after [G] tomorrow.
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ I close [B] my eyes _ _ _ every night.
_ _ _ And I dream that I [Gb] can hold you. _ _
They fill [Abm] us full of lies. _
[B] Everyone buys [Abm] _ about what it [B] means to be [Gb] a soldier. _ _
_ _ [E] Still don't know how I'm [B] supposed to feel about [E] all [B] the blood that's been [E] spilled. _ _ _ _
_ [B] Will God on his throne _ [B] get me back home _ _ on the day after _ [E] tomorrow?
[Gb] _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ You [Bb] can't deny [Eb] the _ [Bb] other side. _ _
_ Don't want to die _ anymore than we do.
_ [F] _ What [Gm] I'm trying to say is, _ don't [Bb] they pray to [Gm] _
[Bb] the same God that we [F] do?
_ _ Tell me, [Eb] _
how does [Bb] God choose? _ _ _
Whose prayers does he [Eb] refuse?
_ _ _ _ Who [Bb] turns the wheel?
_ Who throws the dice _ [Eb] _
on [Bb] the day after [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] tomorrow?
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ I am [Db] not fighting _ justice.
I _ am not fighting [Ab] for [Ab] freedom.
_ I [Bbm] am fighting for [Db] my life [Bbm] _ [Db] and another day in [Ab] the world here.
I [Gb] just do what I've [Db] been told. _
We're just the gravel _ [Gb] on the road.
_ _ And only [Db] the lucky _ [Db] ones come home [Ebm] _ on [Db] the day after _ [Ab] tomorrow. _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
And the summer, _ _ _ it too will fade.
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[C] And with it brings [A] the _ [Dm] winter's frost [Gm] here. _ _ _ _ _
[Am] And I know _ we too [G] are made _ [Am] _ _ of [C] all the things that we have _ [G] lost here.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ I'll [F] be 21 _ [C] today. _ _ _
I've been saving _ all [F] my pay.
_ _ _ And [C] my plane _ [G] will [C] touch down _ _ _ on the day after [Cm] _ tomorrow. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Eb] Thank you. _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ Thank you. _ _
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