Текст песни Sabaton — 1916 + аккорды для гитары
Вступление
[Intro]:Am x4
[Verse 1]:A E5
Sixteen years old when I went to the war,
D5 A
To fight for a land fit for heroes,
A E5
God on my side, and a gun in my hand,
D5 A
Chasing my days down to zero,
A E5
And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,
D5 A
And I never did get any older,
A E5
But I knew at the time that a year in the line,
D5 A
Was a long enough life for a soldier,
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[Verse 2]: A E5
We all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,
D5 A
And we added two years to our ages,
A E5
Eager for life and ahead of the game,
D5 A
Ready for history’s pages,
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And we brawled and we fought and we whored ’til we stood,
D5 A
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
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A thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,
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And that’s what you are when you’re soldiers,
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[Verse 3]: C5 G
I heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,
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Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother,
C5 G
And I fell by his side, and that’s how we died,
F5 C5
Clinging like kids to each other,
C5 G
And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,
F5 C5
And I wept as his body grew colder,
C5 G
And I called for my mother and she never came,
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Though it wasn’t my fault and I wasn’t to blame,
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And the day’s not half over and ten thousand slain,
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And now there’s nobody remembers our names..
[Outro]: F5 C5
And that’s how it is for a soldier..