Lest We Forget

C / F / C / G

C                                   F
Don’t know what you saw over there, another time someplace somewhere,
       C                        G
just a kid with a uniform and a gun
C                            F
Sign up for something to do, steady pay across an ocean of blue
    C            G                    C
somewhere in the land of the midnight sun

  C                                            F
A medal for bravery, and a few medals more, dispatches from that far east war,
C                              G
discharge papers all kept in a drawer
  C                            F
A question from a curious kid, what was it like, what you did
          C                    G               C
there’s a far-away look for an answer, nothing more

[Chorus]
F     C      F                           C            G
Memories, of long gone heroes who still live in your dreams
F     C          F                            C       G
Memories, of the good and the bad and all the gray in-between
Am    G     Am               F                G
Memories, can’t forget what should have never been
F     C              G   F  C
Memories, lest we forget…

[Instrumental]
Am / G / Am / F / G - F / C / G / F / C

C                                  F
Nothing said, nothing more, than a black & white photo worn and torn,
C                                 G
he was so young, could’ve been anyone
C                                   F
Someone’s brother, someone’s son, a memory now, forever young,
        C          G            C
just a kid with a uniform and a gun

[Chorus]

C                                               F
So you carry that flag in that fall parade, for all the ones not here today,
    C                             G
for what you saw and for what was done
C                                   F
Good and evil, black and white, you did your best, what you thought was right
       C          G             C
just a kid with a uniform and a gun