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Sadr City

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[Verse 1]
       D                           F#
Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this
          Em                 D
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared
D                          F#
Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more
     Em                     D
I'm tired and I just don't care
D                 F#
How many tours is too many tours
Em                    D
My baby she'd like to know
                            F#
'Cause always there at the back a'my mind
        Em                   D
Is that Jody's there when I go
[Chorus]
 D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
 D                     Am
Never let 'em send me back
      D               Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
      D                 C
Some shit went down in Iraq
                D
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 2]
            D                    F#
Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot
     Em                        D
And Muqtada's local fighters emerged
 D                          F#
Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two
        Em                    D
And another later during the Surge
  D                       F#
Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care
           Em                      D
It was get it on and kick us some ass
   D                          F#
Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds
         Em                  D
But they educated me pretty fast
[Chorus]
 D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
 D                       Am
Never let 'em send me back
      D               Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
      D                 C
Some shit went down in Iraq
                C
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 3]
             D                           F#
Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light
          Em                   D
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen
 D                    F#
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount
      Em                         D
Get busy, fight it out in the streets
           D                       F#
Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops
Em              D
Haji launchin' RPGs
D                            F#
Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys
 Em                             D
Draggin' on and on week after week
        D                             F#
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby
           Em                         D
But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque
           D                     F#
Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy
            Em                            D
But they couldn't help the guys that we lost
[Chorus]
  D                     Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
 D                      Am
Never let 'em send me back
       D              Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
     D                   C
Some shit went down in Iraq
                 D
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 4]
           D                            F#
Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home
           Em                             D
But they say they're all supportin' the troops
          D                     F#
There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that
             Em               D
Out here thinkin's only for fools
       D                            F#
And as long as there's no lack of young man willin'
    Em                        D
To ride to the sound of the guns
        D                          F#
I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army
       Em                       D
And of both sides losing their sons
[Final Chorus]
       D                       Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City
       D                     Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back
      D                      Am
My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty
       D                      C
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq
                     C
They're sending me back

Sadr City chords and lyrics

Free chords for Sadr City by Corb Lund. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

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[Verse 2]
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[Verse 3]
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[Verse 4]
[Final Chorus]

Sadr City Chords by Corb Lund

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