{"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":1738154,"song":"Red White And Blue","artist":"Michael Fracasso","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11372680-red-white-and-blue-chords-by-michael-fracasso/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1738154?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell I came here from eastern Virginia [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwith a shadow of doubt on my trail, [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthrough the wind in the piney black forest [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwhere the rain shrouded me like a veil. [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd they asked me to fight for my country,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\na country divided in two. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut we'd already lost and all that it cost was bleeding in red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere I came to a farm on the border, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I asked the kind man for a drink.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nAnd it looked like at first to might shoot me, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor he paused just a moment to think. [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd he asked me of my allegiance, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI told him I'd always been true [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto the stars and stripes for all of my life I'd die for the red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell he scoffed and said all wars are evil, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor they robbed a sad world of their youth.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch] \r\nAnd the men who did wage them deceive us, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor they never will tell you the truth. [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThey have brother fight against brother, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nlike Cain poor Abel he slew.  [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike the night into day, the blue and the gray would fade into red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow this man had a fairly young daughter, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nher eyes were a robin's egg blue. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd her hair felt like ringlets of water, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwashed my troubles away through and through.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd she lay down beside me and whispered, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nthat her love every night she'd renew, [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nif I stay by her side and never did ride to fight with the red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut my love for my country grew stronger [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I joined with the boys in the East. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we rode with a valor and swagger, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwhile we stole through the South like a beast.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]  \r\nAnd we tore out the heart of its people, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand we burned every town we went through.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nAll the spoils were ours, beneath the stars, and stripes of the red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen a bullet most grievous did find me, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand my leg I could no longer feel. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo they sawed through my bones for to save me, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand they cotted my skin for to heal. [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAs I lay there in my confusion, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nthey gave me a cane and a shoe. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow one foot in the grave, a small price to pay, to serve in the red white and blue.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen I made my way back to my true love, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthere was nothing left of her home.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust a pile of rubble and ashes, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nher poor daddy was just skin and bones. [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen I asked him where I might find her, [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nhe showed me where wildflowers grew. [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHere he laid her to rest, the place she loved best, wildflowers of red white and blue.[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["G","C","D","Bm","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}