The Unknown Soldier - Ralph Mctell Chords
Chords: C, G/B, Am, F, G, C/E, Gsus4, Em, Dm, Am/G
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Genre: folk, acoustic, storytelling
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Produced and Arranged by Graham Preskett
[Intro 1]
C
Trumpets
[Intro] (Spoken)
C G/B
More than fifty thousand names are carved on Ypres' Menin gate
Am F C
of soldiers who have no known graves, just their destiny and date.
/B Am
Witness and last testament, name and rank and regiment,
G F C C/E F
is now all that survives from so many squandered lives.
Gsus4 G
[Part 1]
C Em F F
And for every name inscribed
C Em F F C/E
the poor bereaved were left to mourn,
Dm G C C
the passing of each one who died
G Am Am/G F F
with no white cross on tended lawn.
G C Em F G
No place to go to contemplate
C G F C/E
the sacrifice, the wicked waste,
Dm G
no footprint left to show where once they trod
F G
Allegedly known unto [Interlude] god.
[Interlude]
C C G G
Am C/G F F
[Part 2]
C Em F G
From Ypres, Arras, Aisne and Somme,
C Em F F C/E
six unknown soldiers were exhumed,
Dm G C C
a blindfold general picked one man
G/B Am Am/G F F G
and reverently they brought him home.
C Em F G
Six black horses drew the hearse
C G F C/E
through silent London crowds immersed,
Dm G
in deepest thought belief or wishful prayer
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