Rise Against - Hero Of Waradd

[Intro]

      F#m         C#

e|---------------2------3/4------------|
B|---------------3----------7-5-4------|
G|---------------3---------------------|
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A|-----2-2-2-----2---------------------|
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          F#
He said, “Son,
                 C#
Have you see the world?
                     B
Well, what would you say
                        F#
If I said that you could?
                B
Just carry this gun
                     F#
and you’ll even get paid.”
                            C#
I said, “That sounds pretty good.”

              F#
Black leather boots
               C#
Spit-shined so bright
                B
They cut off my hair
              F#
but it looked alright
                  B
We marched and we sang
              F#
We all became friends
                     C#
As we learned how to fight


          G#m
A hero of war
                     B
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
                F#
And when I come home
                         C#
They’ll be damn proud of me
                G#m
I’ll carry this flag
                  B
To the grave if I must
                        F#
Because it’s flag that I love
                  C#
And a flag that I trust

                F#
I kicked in the door
             C#
I yelled my commands
                   B
The children, they cried
              F#
But I got my man
            B
We took him away
                F#
A bag over his face
                       C#
From his family and his friends

                  F#
They took off his clothes
                 C#
They pissed in his hands
                B
I told them to stop
               F#
But then I joined in
                 B
We beat him with guns
                   F#
And batons not just once
               C#
But again and again


          G#m
A hero of war
                      B
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
                  F#
And when I come home
                        C#
They’ll be damn proud of me
                G#m
I’ll carry this flag
                  B
To the grave if I must
                          F#
Because it’s flag that I love
                   C#
And a flag that I trust

        F#
She walked
                    C#
through bullets and haze
                 B
I asked her to stop
                F#
I begged her to stay
                B
But she pressed on
                F#
So I lifted my gun
             C#
And I fired away

        F#
The shells
                    C#
jumped through the smoke
             B
And into the sand
                        F#
That the blood now had soaked
        B
She collapsed
                   F#
with a flag in her hand
                C#
A flag white as snow


          G#m
A hero of war
                 B
Is that what the see
                F#
Just medals and scars
                C#
So damn proud of me
                          G#m
And I brought home that flag
                B
Now it gathers dust
                        F#
But it’s a flag that I love
                        C#
It’s the only flag I trust

          F#
He said, “Son,
                   C#
have you seen the world?
                    B
Well what would you say,
                   F#
if I said that you could?