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What Did You Do In The War Dad

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Introdução:

 Gm                                                   Eb 
Dad, what did you do in the war?
                                         Gm 
Something to answer for?
                                         F 
You say too young I am to know
 Gm                                                 Eb 
Dad, I've heard you cry at night
                                               Gm 
Mournful and desperate blight
                                                   F 
Where did you learn that song you sing

 Cm                             Eb 
"War is in me! I was the war!
                   Gm                                           F 
And your praying brings back the suffering
         Cm                       Eb             Gm 
No, please, don't start to cry
 Cm                   Eb 
I only pray you'll never know
                           Gm                             F 
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
               Cm                 Bb                   Eb 
Do you fear yesterday will in someway
     F 
Define the life of your child?

 Gm                                                           Eb 
Dad, I know what you did in the war
                                       Gm 
Deeds devils would abhor
                                       F 
Did you filfil the oath you swore?
 Gm                                         Eb 
Dad, did you do it for me?
                                                       Gm 
Their blood for my life to live
                                     F 
In the hollow without reprieve, without you
 Cm                             Eb 
"War is in me! I am the war!
                     Gm                                     F 
Don't you force me to live the nightmare again!
 Cm                       Eb           Gm 
Please, don't make my cry
                 Cm                         Eb 
My son, you never ever want to know
                   Gm                                   F 
How when guarding your sleep serene I hear
         Cm           Eb         Gm                     F 
The silence of the children who sang"

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