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The War Drags On

Donovan
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{sot}WAR DRAGS ON Donovan LeitchThis is an anti-war song written in the days of nuclear oppression. I don^?t think Donovan wrote it and at some stage I came across the last verse.This verse is not on the record (
Universal Soldier 1966) E E7 A E Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan E7 A EWent out
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blood and bonesmillions without faces--without hope and without homes--and the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones--that the flesh had long since left just as the people--left their homes--and the war drags onThey^?re just there to make the people freebut the way that they^?re doing it--it don^?t seem like that to mejust more blood letting and misery and tears--that this poor country^?s known--for the last twenty years--and the war drags onLast night young Dan had a nightmare it seemsone that kept occurring and reoccurring in his dreamsmillions of people running --screaming and shouting loudand right overhead was a big--mushroom cloudand there^?s no more warcause there^?s no more worldand my tears keep fallin downlike the rain --on to the blackened groundGary Higgins
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{sot}WAR DRAGS ON  Donovan LeitchThis is an anti-war song written in the days of nuclear oppression. I don^?t think Donovan wrote it and at some stage I came across the last verse.This verse is not on the record (
Universal Soldier 1966)             E                      E7      A                  E Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan                                                E7    A            EWent out
fight the good fight in South Vietnam                                           E7                           A              E  Went out to fight for peace.----------------------liberty and all                                            E7      A           F#M            EWent out to fight for equality.                     Hope   let^?s goChorusEm7                 EAnd the war drags onFound himself involved in a sea{eot}
blood and bonesmillions without faces--without hope and without homes--and the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones--that the flesh had long since left just as the people--left their homes--and the war  drags  onThey^?re just there to make the people freebut the way that they^?re doing it--it don^?t seem like that to mejust more blood letting and misery and tears--that this poor country^?s known--for the last twenty years--and the war drags onLast night young Dan had a nightmare it seemsone that kept occurring and reoccurring in his dreamsmillions of people running  --screaming and shouting loudand right overhead was a big--mushroom cloudand there^?s no more warcause there^?s no more worldand my tears keep fallin downlike the rain --on to the blackened groundGary Higgins
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