{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":643734,"song":"1916","artist":"Motörhead","content_type":"tab","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11006347-1916-tab-by-motorhead/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/643734?type=tab","rating":4.83859,"votes":141,"content":"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n \r\nHope these chords are correct.\r\n\r\nCapo on 1st fret. \r\n\r\n intro:   [ch]A[/ch], [ch]A[/ch], [ch]A[/ch], [ch]A[/ch].\r\n\r\nVerse:\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\n16 years old when I went the war,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo fight for a land fit for heroes,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGod on my side, and a gun in my hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nChasing my days down to zero,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]                    \r\nAnd I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I never did get any older,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut I knew at the time that a year in the line,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch],  [ch]A[/ch],  [ch]A[/ch], \r\nIs a long enough life for a soldier,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd we added two years to our ages,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nEager for life and ahead of the game,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nReady for history's pages,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTen thousand shoulder to shoulder,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch],\r\nAnd that's what you are when you're soldiers,[/tab]\r\n[ch]A[/ch],[ch]E[/ch],[ch]D[/ch],[ch]A[/ch],  [ch]A[/ch],[ch]E[/ch],[ch]D[/ch],[ch]A[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch],[ch]A[/ch],[ch]A[/ch].\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]                 \r\nI heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]     \r\nCoughing blood as he screamed for his mother,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]                  \r\nAnd I fell by his side, and that's how we died,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClinging like kids to each other,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                 \r\nAnd I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I wept as his body grew colder,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]              \r\nAnd I called for my mother and she never came,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThough it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe day not half over and ten thousand slain,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                 \r\nAnd now there's nobody remembers our names,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd that's how it is for a soldier.[/tab]\r","plain_text":"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nHope these chords are correct.\n\nCapo on 1st fret. \n\n intro:   A, A, A, A.\n\nVerse:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA,E,D,A,  A,E,D,A  A,A,A.","chords":["A","E","D","G"]}