Chords for Drummer Boy

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Way back many years ago, way back [D] many years ago, [G] _
once upon a springtime of _ _ _ 1861, _ _ [G] the country
was divided now, the country was [C] divided now.
_ [G] Different ways of living, across the Mason [F]-Dixon line.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [G] Live way down the southern way, live way down the [F] southern way, [G] a young boy and his mama
_ and the home had been [F] built.
There [G] was a man knocking at the door, a man knocking [F] at the door,
[G] _ looking around for _ a volunteer to be the drummer [F] boy.
_ _ _ [D] _ Sonny boy wants to leave his home, [C] _ sonny boy [G] wants to be a man,
[D] he's been had for the marching beat, [C] he's off to be [G] the drummer boy.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Mama, mama, can you hear, mama, mama, [F] can you hear, [G] cannons on the district shore, there was hope for Peter [F] Man and _ _ [G] _ _
_ Manilow.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] Drums were strong in a travel bar, drums were strong in a [F] travel bar, [G] rich banana, _ shiloh, and the field of _ [F] Gettysburg.
_ _ [G] _ Gunshot thundered _ overhead, _ gunshot [F] thundered _ overhead, _ horrors that a world can bring for a young boy's eyes [F] to see.
_ [D] _ Sonny boy left his home, [C] _ sonny boy [G] became a man, [D] kept the time for the marching beat, [C] lived to be [G] the drummer boy.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Mama, mama, don't you cry, _ mama, [D] mama, don't you cry, _ _ [G] your son is sure a hero, _ thank the lord if he [C] comes home.
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_ _ _ Thank the lord.
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_ _ _ Thank the lord.
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