Key: C
Introduction: C9 C/B D C9 G C9 D
G D/F#
He grew up in a time
C9 C/B
When a third-grade education
C9 C/B
Was all the school you needed
Am7 D
To work the family farm.
G D/F#
He'd take time off on Sunday
C9 C/B
Him and all his family
Am
warm a pew
C/B C9(FILL G
And give thanks to the Lord.
C9 C/B Am7 C/B
There was no gray only black and white.
C9 C/B
Didn't need no-one to tell him
A7 D
What was wrong or right.
C9 D C9 G C9 D
'Cause he had God Family and Country.
Verse
G D/F#
He set aside his plow
C9 C/B
In early 1940
C9 C/B
Said goodbye to his small town
A7 D
And put on the Army green.
G D/F#
Hard Times on the front lines
C9 C/B
Writin' letters on wet paper
A7 C/B C(FILL G
Not one word about the awful things he'd seen.
C9 C/B
His was a generation
A7 C/B
That answered without question.
C9 C/B
They knew they had to win
A7 D
'Cause they were fightin' for...
C9 D C9 G C9 G
God Family and Country.
Instrumental
Am C/B C9 D C9 D
Verse
G D/F#
On the coffee table
C9 C/B
Sits the family Bible
C9 C/B
Where just last year he added
A7 D
A little boy to the family tree.
G D/F#
There's the folded flag they gave us
C9 C/B
On the day he left us.
A7 Am
But the thing that I remember most
A7 D
Is the way that he...
C9 D C9 G
In God Family and Country...
C9
Ohhh we've got God...
D
Family...
And Country...