Chords for The Waterboys. Haldern Festival 2007. 11 Red Army Blues.

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[Am] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] When I left my [F] home and my family, [G] my mother said [Em] to me, son, [Am] here's a letter from your
He said, son, I'm going to kill all the [F] Nazis that you can [G] and set your people [Em] free.
So I packed my [F] bags and I brushed my cat and I walked [Em] out into the world.
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[F] 17 years [G] old, never [Em] guessed a girl.
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_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] We took the train [F] to Voronezh.
That was as [Em] far as it would go.
[Am] I exchanged [F] my clothes for the [G] uniform, bit my lip [Em] against the snow.
[Am] I prayed for [F] Mother Russia [G] in the summer of 43.
[Em] And [Am] as we drove the [F] Nazis back, I really believed [Em] God was listening.
[Am] Tell me.
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[G] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] Then we [F] howled into Berlin, [G] tore the smoking [Em] buildings down, [Am] raised the red [F] flag high, _
[G] burnt the Reichstag brown.
[Am] I saw my first [F] American.
[G] He looked a lot like me.
He had [Am] the same kind of farmer's [F] face.
Said he came [G] from some [Em] place called Hazard, Tennessee.
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[Em] _ _ [Am] _ then the war was over.
[G] My [Em] discharge papers came.
[Am] Me and [F] sixty thousand others [G] went to Stettiner [Em] for the train.
[Am] Kiev, [F] said the commissar.
[G] From there your [Em] own way home.
[Am] But we never [F] got to Kiev.
[G] We [Em] never got home.
[A] The train went [C] north into the Taiga.
[D] We were chained and [E] marched in a file.
[Am] Up the great [C] Siberian road.
[D] For miles and [Em] miles and miles and [A] miles.
Dressed in [C] stripes and tatters.
[D] In a cool act left [E] to die.
All [A] because comrade Stalin [C] was afraid.
[G] We'd become too [E] westernized.
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[Em] _ _ [Am] _ [F] I used to love my country.
[G] I [Em] used to be so [Am] young.
[C] I used to believe my life [G] was the best song [Em] ever sung.
[Am] I would have [F] died for my country.
[G] Back in [Em] 1945.
[Am] But now only [F] one thing remains.
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_ [Am] But now [F] only one thing [G] remains.
_ [A] But now [F] only one thing [Em] remains.
_ But now only [F] one thing [G] remains.
The [E] brute will to [Am] survive.
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