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FA#m
SIm SOL LA MI
Young men and soldiers, nineteen fourteen.
SIm SOL LA DO
Marching through countries they'd never seen
SIm SOL LA MI
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
DO SIm7 LA DO LA DO
All for a children's crusade
[same chords]
Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
DO SIm7 LA
All of those young lives betrayed
Chorus
DO SOL DO SOL
The children of England would never be slaves
DO SIm MIm SIb13
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
DO SOL DO SOL
The Flower of England face down in the mud
DO SIm MIm SIb13
And stained in the blood of a whole generation
[chords like verse 1]
Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
DO SIm7 MIm
All for a children's crusade
During solo: Em Bm7
Repeat Chorus
[chords like verse 3]
Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty-four
Fixing in door ways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade.
Bb13=6x678x, could be Ebmaj7/Bb=x11333 as well.
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