Em - C - D (4x) + Em
- D - Em - D - C - D (2x)
+ C - D - Em - D
Em
1. You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours,
too,
D - Em
you’ll fire
your musket but I’ll run you through,
D - C
So
when you’re waiting for the next attack,
D - Em
you’d better stand,
there’s no turning back.
D - Em
The bugle sounds and the charge begins,
D - Em
but on this
battlefield no one wins,
D - C
the smell of acrid
smoke and horses breath,
D - Em
as I plunge on into certain death.
D Em D Em - D
Oh oh
oh oh, oh oh oh oh
oh !
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
oh oh !
+ Em - D - Em - D - C - D
(2x)
Em
2. The horse he sweats with
fear, we break to run,
D - Em
the mighty roar of the Russian guns,
D - C
and as we race towards the human wall,
D - Em
the screams of pain as my comrades fall.
D - Em
We hurdle bodies that lay on the
ground,
D - Em
and the Russians fire another round,
D - C
we get so near,
yet so far away,
D - Em
we won’t live to
fight another day.
D Em D Em
Oh oh
oh oh, oh oh oh oh
oh !
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
oh oh !
(first part of instrumental
passage left out here)
+ Em - D - Em - D - C
- D
(2x)
Em
3. We get so close, near
enough to fight,
D - Em
when a Russian gets
me in his sights,
D - C
he pulls the
trigger and I feel the blow,
D - Em
a burst of rounds take my horse below.
D - Em
And as I lay there gazing at the sky,
D - Em
my body’s numb
and my throat is dry,
D - C
and as I lay forgotten and alone,
D - Em
without a tear
I draw my parting groan.
D Em D Em
Oh oh
oh oh, oh oh oh oh
oh !
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
oh oh !
+ Em - C - D (5x) - Em
(Iron Maiden)