Chords for Pete Seeger - American War Songs Medley

_ _ If they're gonna make a patriarch out of me, I'll fix them.
I'll sing you a pop song of
200 years ago _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Come to think of it.
I'll sing you [B] little bits of some other songs of other American wars
_ _ 1846 or with Mexico not everybody agreed with this one.
You know a blink and he voted against it [Bb] himself
_ But they went in soldiers did pretty little [B] pink guy once did [E] think you and I would marry
But now that you have turned me down
[Dm] I'll no longer tarry I [Bb] put my knapsack on the back my gun upon my shoulder
Fly away to [E] Mexico to be a [D] valiant soldier _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ 1863 _
Wasn't agreement here neither.
[F] Let's see.
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_ _ [F] What a great song one of America's greatest
_ _ John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in [Gm] the grave.
Well, his soul goes marching on
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1898 _ war with Spain _ _ _
invasion of the [Cm] Philippines
_ _ [Bb] _ more disagreement
_ [A] Mark Twain thought that President McKinley we should be boiled in oil
But that didn't stop McKinley and the soldiers went in
This is not a very pretty [Dm] song
_ Damn, damn.
Damn the [G] Filipino
[Gm] cross [Bb]-eyed cocky a [C] clodron
And beneath the starry flag civilized them with a crag and go back to our own beloved home
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_ If there's any Philippine people listening, I hope you pardon me.
Just trying to get the history out a
far better soldier song is one written in
1917 by
Black soldiers and every GI since has learned it.
Oh the coffee [F] up they give [C] you they say is mighty fine
Good for cuts and bruises
[F] tastes like [Bb] iodine I
Don't want no [F] more of army life
[D] Jeep but I [Cm] wanna go [Bb] gee, but I wanna go gee, but I wanna [F] go home.
I
Learned that song myself
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