Born On The Fourth Of July Chords

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C Em F G

C Em F G

 ACs a schoolboy I played withEm a plastic grenade

 IFt was grey and Gwith caps it Cwas loaded

 IFn the dirt we would cry anCd dramaticaAmlly die

 AFs it flew through Gthe air andC exploded

 AEs a young man my dream was Amto be a marine

 MFy flag was worth all I couldG bring it

 TChe country was young. When thEme anthem was sung

 IFt gave me theG goosebumps to Csing it

 IF was born on the fourth oCf July

 NFo-one more loyal than I G

 WChen my country said so EmI was ready to go

 AFnd I wish I'd bGeen left there Cto die

Em F G

When I landed in Nam I was with Uncle Sam

I was fighting for God and my mother

And I knew what to do when my first tour was through

I signed up and went back for another

But it all tumbled down when we ambushed the town

In the night how the metal was flying

We blew it to hell. Really did our job well,

But just women and kids did the dying

I was born on the fourth of July

No-one more loyal than I

When my country said so I was ready to go

And I wish I'd been left there to die

In the damn DMZ it all ended for me

The fighting broke out and we scattered

One shot hit my heel, the last thing I feel

The next hit my spine and it shattered

In my hospital bed I could hear what was said

And the word will stay with me forever

With my whole life ahead, my body was dead

And the word they were using was never

Now I wheel myself down to the crossroads of town

To see the young girls and their lovers

And my mind is afire, it's alive with desire

Christ, I'd barely begun, now it's over

In my wheelchair for life, my mechanical wife

I'm supposed to be cheerful and stoic

I'm your old tried-and-true, Yankee Doodle to you

Clean-cut, paralysed and heroic