Front Line Chords by Stevie Wonder

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[C#] _ [G#] I am a veteran [C#] _ [G#] of the war.
Up and gunning army [C#] back in [G#] 1964.
_ At 16 I just happened to [C#] be a man in [G#] a neat coat.
I volunteered for Vietnam [C#] where I got my leg [G#m] shot [F#] off.
[Fm] I recall a quote from a [F#] movie that said,
who's [C#] more a man [Fm] than a man with a reason that [C#] worth dying for?
_ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
_ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
[F#] _ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
Now I stand at the top of the [F#] line when it comes to [G#] killing.
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[C#] _ [G#] They gave me a uniform [C#] and a tiny [G#] socket pill.
Stop the big girls you might [C#] laugh for the wrong [G#] kind of thrill.
They put a gun in my [C#] hand and said shoot till he's dead.
[G#] It's hard to kill complete, [C#] I'm your friend, head [G#] buster, your [F#] man.
[Fm] Brought up in church, taught no [F#] man to take [C#] another's life.
[Fm] I've been put in the jungle [F#] when life [D#] had no price.
[G#] Lord, [G#m] they had me standing on the [C#] front line.
_ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
[G#] _ They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
Now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to [G#] killing.
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[G#] _ [A#] Back in the world of [F#] rape I reach today.
_ [A#] I'm not the warriors [F#] in the brewing. _
[D#m] _ [C#] But what about the [D#m] lives of guests [C#] at day?
[F#] And the many happy families [A#] that have [D#m] been ruined?
[G#] My nieces the hook up [C#] men, my nephew the [G#] junkie truck.
They see I have no right [C#] to tell them how [G#] they should do.
They laugh and say quick [C#] wagon but the warriors should [G#] never been you.
But my mind is so brainwashed [C#] I'd probably go back and [G#] do it [F#] again.
[Fm] I've walked the neighborhood [F#] parade in my [C#] purple heart.
[Fm] With a few of agents [D#] on, spent my one foot stalled.
[G#] Lord, they had me standing [F#] on the [C#] front line.
_ [G#] They had me standing [F#] on the [C#] front line.
_ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
Now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to [G#] killing.
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[C#] _ [G#] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
[G#m] _ They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
[G#m] _ They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
Now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to getting [G#] ahead.
[F#]
[C#] Would you [G#] believe I do?
They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
_ [G#m] They had me standing [C#] on the front line.
_ [G#] _ They had me standing [G#m] on the front [C#] line.
Now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to [G#] getting ahead.
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