Rise Against - Hero Of Waradd

[Intro]

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          G#
He said, “Son,
                 D#
Have you see the world?
                     C#
Well, what would you say
                        G#
If I said that you could?
                C#
Just carry this gun
                     G#
and you’ll even get paid.”
                            D#
I said, “That sounds pretty good.”

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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