Chords for SABATON - Christmas Truce (Animated Story Video)

_ _ _ It's the night of December _ _ [D] 24th, _ 1914 on the [E] Western Front.
_ The industrial might of the new [C] 20th century has been focused into a war
[Am] that has been going on for [Dm] five months.
_ Everyone thought it would be over by [C] Christmas,
_ but sadly [Am] such hopes have now died alongside the young men
in the clinging mud and cold [G] of the trenches. _
_ _ On the run-up to Christmas, Pope Benedict [F] XV
begged the warring [F] governments to call a [C] truce
and asked that the guns may [E] fall silent,
[Abm] at least upon the night the angels [Am] sang, but it was no use. _ _
In the trenches, [G] sometimes just 30 meters apart,
the men of both sides often shout [C] insults to each other above the sounds of battle. _
_ On Christmas [G] Eve, a cry comes over from the German side in [Dm] broken English, _
tomorrow, you no shoot, _ we no shoot.
[Em] _ The British [C] and French [G] are incredulous.
Then [C] along the trenches there's a movement,
_ but instead of seeing the sight of [Ab] men going over the top,
this time pushed up above [E] the top of the trenches, _
[Ab] Christmas trees [E] start to appear along the [Am] German lights,
lit up by flickering candles.
_ Is it a ruse?
Could it be real?
_ Could the regular [C] soldiers on the front lines make a peace at Christmas,
when the church could not? _ _
On the wind drifting [G] across no man's land, there's a sound of hope and cheer,
as Christmas carols are sung.
_ _ The gentle murmur becomes stronger, and is picked up by [F] more and more of the soldiers.
As Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day, the British and French join in too.
[Am] _ As the [E] morning draws, _ there's silence. _ _ _ _ _
_ In a farmhouse a short distance away from the front line,
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is 18-year-old Scotsman [Eb] Alfred Anderson.
_ He vividly recalled that Christmas [N] Day and said,
_ I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.
_ Only the guards were on duty.
We all went outside the farm buildings and just stood listening,
_ and of course thinking of people back home.
_ All I'd heard for two months in the trenches _ was the hissing, _ cracking and whining of bullets in flight,
machine gun fire and distant German voices.
_ But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see.
_ We shouted, _ Merry [Eb] Christmas, _ _ _ _
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_ _ Silence, _ _ oh I remember [G] the _ silence, _ _ _ on a cold [Am] winter _ day. _ _ _
After many months on [G] the battlefield, _ _ _ _ and we were used to [C] the _ _ violence. _ _
Then all the candles [G] went _ _ silent, _ _ _ _ _ and the [Dm] snow fell. _ _ _
_ Voices sang to [D] me [C] from _ no [G] man's _ land.
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We are [G] all, we are [C] all, we are [D] all, we are [E] all _ friends. _ _ _
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Today we're [G] all brothers, [A]
tonight we're [Em] all friends.
[C] Our _ [G] moments of peace in a [Am] war that never [G] _ ends.
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Today we're [G] all brothers, [Am] we've dreamed to [E] unite.
[C] Now Christmas [G] has arrived, and the snow [Am] turns the [G] ground white.
[C] Hear carols from [G] the trenches, [Am] we sing a [F] holy night.
[Dm] Our guns [C] lay to rest on [G] the stone _ plates.
[F] A Christmas [D] in the trenches, [G] a Christmas on the [E] drum, far [Am] from _ home. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Muppets, _ oh I remember [G] the _ sadness. _ _ _
We were hiding [Am] our _ tears, _ _ _ in a foreign land where [G] we faced our fears. _ _ _
_ _ _ We [C] were _ _ soldiers, _ _ carrying _ on [G] our _ shoulders, _ _ _ _ _ _ for [Dm] our _ _ nations. _ _
_ It starts when [C] we _ _ carry [G] our _ friends.
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_ _ [Dm] _ We were [E] our _ friends.
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today we're [G] all brothers, [Am]
tonight we're [Em] all friends.
[C] Our moments [G] of peace in a [Am] war that never [G] _ ends.
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Today we're [G] all brothers, [Am] we've dreamed to [Em] unite.
[C] Now Christmas [G] has arrived, and the [Am] snow turns the [G] ground white.
[C] Hear carols from [G] the trenches, we [Am] sing a [F] holy night.
[Dm] Our guns [Em] lay to rest on [G] the stone _ plates.
[F] A Christmas [D] in the trenches, [G] a Christmas on the [E] drum, far [C] from home.
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And [C] today we're all [G] brothers, _ [Am] tonight we're [Em] all friends.
[C] Our moments of [G] peace in a [E] war that never ends.
_ [C] Today we're [G] all brothers, [Am] we've dreamed to [Em]
unite.
Now Christmas has [G] arrived, and the snow turns the ground white.
[C] A Christmas [F] on the drum, like [G] we walk among [C] our friends.
We [Am] don't think about [Dm]
tomorrow, [E] the battle will [C]
commence.
When we celebrate [F] a Christmas, [G] we laugh about [C] our friends.
Those [Am] who never [Dm] made it home, when [E] the battle had [Am]
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_ [Em] _ [C] There were many matches along the lines that day, [Am] some with proper [G] footballs, some with [C] bully beef cans.
Some were disorganised scrambles for the ball.
_ Robert Graves reported that [G] in his match, [Am] the Germans won 3 [G]-2.
The [C] Argyle and [G] Southern Highlanders [Am] reported their match ended _ [Dm] 4-1 to Scotland.
[D] An estimated [G] 100,000 men took [F] part in the Christmas [D] truce.
_ _ [G] As the men [E] moved back to their [Am] trenches, Captain Charles Stockwell took it upon himself to fire _ [Em] three shots skyward.
_ _ He raised a flag upon which [G] was written, Merry Christmas. _
His German opposite [Dm] raised a flag that read, _ _ Thank you.
_ _ _ The two men then [C] stood on the ramparts and saluted [G] each other. _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Alfred Anderson, the young Scotsman, _ survived the war and lived to the age of _ 109.
He said at the end of the truce, [C] the silence ended in the early afternoon.
_ It was a short peace [G] and a terrible war.
_ But one of the most remarkable [F] quotes comes from a young soldier,
who despite being away from his [Em] family for the first time, said of the events on [B] that day,
I [C] wouldn't have missed it for the most [G] gorgeous Christmas dinner in [Dm] England. _
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A Merry Christmas from [C] everyone at Yarnhub.
[G] And the final words go to the members [Am] of Sabaton. _
_ _ _ _ [A] Merry Christmas! _ _ _ _ _
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