INTRO
G G Em Em
G G Em Em
G G Em Em
C/G C/G G D
VERSE
G Em
What can you see from your window?
G Em
I can't see anything from mine.
G Em
Flags on the side of the highway
C/G G D
and scripture on grocery store signs.
G Em
Maybe eighteen was too early.
G Em
Maybe thirty or forty is too.
G Em
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
C/G G D
before he sent down his angels for you?
Chorus
Em D G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em D G G/F#
'cause that's all they know how to do.
Em Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C Cm G
or sleeping in your dress blues.
G G Em Em
G G Em Em
VERSE
G Em
Your wife said this all would be funny
G Em
when you came back home in a week.
G Em
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
C/G G D
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
G Em
Your baby would just about be here.
G Em
Your very last tour would be up
G Em
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
C/G G D
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.
Chorus
Em D G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em D G G/F#
American boys hate to lose.
Em Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C Cm G
or sleeping in your dress blues.
G G Em Em
G G Em Em
G G Em Em
C/G C/G G D
VERSE
G Em
Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
G Em
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
G Em
Nobody showed up to protest,
C/G G D
just sniffle and stare.
G Em
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
G Em
and there's silent old men from the corps.
G Em
What did they say when they shipped you away
C/G G D
to give all in some god awful war
Chorus
Em D G
Nobody here can forget you.
Em D G G/F#
You showed us what we had to lose.
Em Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C Cm G
or sleeping in your dress blues.
Em Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C Cm G
or sleeping in your dress blues.
Em Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C Cm G
or sleeping in your dress blues.