Levellers
Am
Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
G
It's just another firefight
F G
For the people of this little town
Am
But for the dying soldier
G
Well he's feeling ten years older
F G
As he's lying face down on the ground
Am
All the words that are in his head
G
And all the words that his mother said
F G
As she would put him to bed back home
C G Am
Your Daddy when he died in the Falklands
C
G Am
Fighting for another man's cause
C G Am
And your brother he was killed in the last
war
C G Am
And your mother, well she's lying home
alone
Everyday she sees your face
On the picture on the fireplace
With your brother as he was leaving school
Then a day came five years ago
You said "Mother, I need to know"
And you spoke the words your brother spoke
before
"I know the things my Daddy done
And I've seen the medals that he's won
And I know this is what he would have
wanted for me
F
G Am G
Now she wonders at it all
F G Am G
Just in whose name, do these brave young heroes
fall
And how many more are gonna
answer that call
They're gonna
fight and die in another country's war
They're gonna die
for a religion didn't believe in at all
F G
Am
They're gonna die
in a place they should never been at all
Am
Oh, never been at all