{"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":2881025,"song":"The Gift Of Years","artist":"Eric Bogle","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11649275-the-gift-of-years-chords-by-eric-bogle/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2881025?type=chord","rating":4.63936,"votes":7,"content":"Eric Bogle - The Gift of Years\r\nFrom the album: Voices in the Wilderness (1990)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, old friend, here I am, I told you I'd be back[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd as usual mate, I'm bloody late; it's 75 years down the track[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor the last time here I stand in this familiar foreign land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack with the mates I left behind, fixed forever in their time[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd all the ghosts, of all the boys who haunt this lonely place[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOnly one of them wears your cheery grin & your Queensland joker's face[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I drown in all the bloody dreams of helpless young men's dying screams[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A7[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI feel your hand give my arm a shake & your voice say \"steady, mate\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the country that you died for, mate, you would not know it now[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe future that we dreamed of, mate, got all twisted up somehow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe peace that we were fighting for, the end to stupid senseless war[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo it couldn't happen to our kids - well old mate, it did[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A7[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut thank you for the gift of years & the flame that brightly burned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor the time you bought & the lessons taught, tho' often wasted & unlearned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]A7[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"Lest we forget\" cry the multitudes, as if I ever ever could[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]A7[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo forgive an old man's tears, & thank you for the years[/tab]","plain_text":"Eric Bogle - The Gift of Years\nFrom the album: Voices in the Wilderness (1990)\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]","chords":["D","G","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}