Chords for Dust of Uruzgan

[Dm] _ _ _ _ Oh boy, what a lovely little_
I have just turned 28, just bought a new car, went and joined the first band,
[Am] with a big one I write about, [Dm] moving next up for employment, in South Afghanistan,
_ to combat the [G] insurgency and the dust [Dm] of the hurricane.
_ _ _ Good luck, good luck. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And on the _ _ first flight flying medicine [Am] gear in the town,
_ [D] shooting in just before the trip down from MRAP GM1,
racing around the road [Am] in the Afghani-style sunbeam,
[D] walking to the ring, little star in my hand,
boy, you got my attention, [G] as it got [Dm] to the early days.
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_ _ [D] So we started off near the shore, we're in 40 now, society,
_ mentoring in Wakanda, [Am] from the Afghan for the gay,
[D] down to the Malibu, to the Juhi, and Darshan,
working on the dirt road, in the sky, in the dust of the hurricane,
boy, it's been a long, long way [A] from town,
but my feet could see, _ somewhere near you walking, in the 14th century.
_ _ I'm about to [E] start a war, going to the land,
going to get to the [A] top, the top, the top,
to the [D] end of the end, to the end of the end.
And the anticipation, that's what you need to read the whole writing,
in the midst of all the weather,
[G] nothing much, not here at night,
[D] so you fight the heat out there,
oh, what a feeling in the land,
that indeed shut [G] [C] us the birds [Dm] in the _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[Dm] head.
I'm about to boost,
the corrupted smell [E] of junk,
the looks of your [C] corruption,
with the endless body in [Dm] the dust.
I find the sculpting powder,
and the grounding in the air,
and it gets into your eyes,
[C] and it gets into your [D] hair,
and it gets into your anus,
and it gets into your boots,
when the bureaucrats all show up here,
[Am] it gets into their boots,
[D] gets in the machinery,
and it boils their bread to land,
where there's something constantly like a [Em] battle,
that's the [Dm] word. _
_ _ _ Listen to the people,
[D] they're tenacious, and they're courteous,
and they're human, [F] looking into your eyes,
and walking [D] through your hands,
and they face each day with courage,
and each year without a pause. _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [D] And without a reason,
keep the people [G] terrorized,
with roadside [Dm] bombs and hangers,
and even letters in the night,
and they have no useful vision,
to the children [E] of this land,
[Am] that the geek be praying on,
and even the dust of the _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ earth.
[E] It [Dm] is a quiet, silent morning,
when a two [Gm]-shot made a call,
from the [Dm] compound of England,
to the east of Copper Shore,
passing in information,
that would build [E] an IED,
to record their instructions,
to record their [Dm] subpoenas.
I was on the West Blank Pier,
from there [Gm] I would bend,
and keep a [A] watchful eye out,
till the other boats [E] went in.
[Dm] We knew the signs of danger,
[Gm] from the [Bb] TGPs we'd learned,
[Dm] the Nationals and Militants,
that [A] were on the [Dm] Lough Neath line,
and sandwiched to a parade.
[Bb] I'd give a big stint [E] there,
and keep a [A] small IED marked,
and everything I'd [Dm] left.
I woke up one day,
and found out on my back,
[Am] that there were three seven-ton trucks,
and we used to get them shot.
[Dm] _ But I lived to tell this story,
to a single person [Gm] close,
the main charge laid ten feet away,
[Dm] from a treasure trove,
and the miners linked by deck call,
to a big charge laid [Gm] by hand,
hitting on the bend,
[Bb] and the dust of the wind [Dm] came in. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And Queensland Shanty,
I loved it,
the colour of the [Gm] sand was my name,
and all I see is bed sheets,
and my right foot used to [Dm] be,
a very good man,
underneath the strident [Gm] sand,
and the spirits out there [Bb] wondered,
if the dust was all right,
and [Dm] the wind was blowing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Dm] From _
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_ _ [D] _ _ my home back town,
to the city of my birth,
you used to go back to battle,
and I used to go back to birth.
I lived with my father,
he stayed to an arm's length,
while I spent the night in the dungeon.
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