What Did You Do In The War Dad

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Gm                          Eb
Dad, what did you do in the war?
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Something to answer for?
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You say too young I am to know

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Dad, I've heard you cry at night
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Mournful and desperate blight
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Where did you learn that song you sing

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Cm               Eb
"War is in me! I was the war!
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And your praying brings back the suffering
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No, please, don't start to cry
Cm          Eb
I only pray you'll never know
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The things I see every time I close my eyes
Cm     Eb         Gm F
Angels still have faces"

Gm
What did you do in the war, dad, tell me
Eb                           Bb       F
Why can't you smile when the children sing
        Gm       Eb           Bb      F
Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings
         Gm          Eb           Bb
And your soul is now torn, unlike mine
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Do you fear yesterday will in someway
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Define the life of your child?

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Gm                              Eb
Dad, I know what you did in the war
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Deeds devils would abhor
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Did you filfil the oath you swore?

Gm                     Eb
Dad, did you do it for me?
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Their blood for my life to live
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In the hollow without reprieve, without you

Cm               Eb
"War is in me! I am the war!
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Don't you force me to live the nightmare again!
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Please, don't make my cry
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My son, you never ever want to know
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How when guarding your sleep serene I hear
    Cm      Eb     Gm           F
The silence of the children who sang"

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Far and beyond the stars there's
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A place where all the love,
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All the goodness we could have still resides
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But we choose life away from the light
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You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your
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Beautiful child