10,000 Maniacs - Gun Shy

      
 
 (10,000 Maniacs)
 
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 this is my rendition of the version that's on the In My Tribe album
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 (Intro Chords)
 G G G G 
     
 Am G D D 
     
 
 G                                                       
 I always knew that you would take yourself far from home
 
    Am          G                D 
 As soon as, as far as you could go
 
           G                                             
 By the quarter inch cut of your hair and the army issued
 
               Am                   G                 D   
 green For the past six weeks I can tell Where you've been
 
 (Chorus #1)
         G             D          C              
 For I knew, I could see it was all cut and dried
 
    G            Am                   G               
 to me There was soldier's blue blood streaming inside
 
     D               G                     D     
 your veins There is a world outside of this room
 
            C               G       Am        G     
 And when you meet it promise me that you won't meet
 
              D  
 It with your gun
 
      G                                      Am          
 now, you are one, one of the brave few It's awful sad we
 
 G              D     G                                  
 need Boys like you I hope the day never comes for here?s
 
                                Am      G             
 your live round, son Stock and barrel, safety trigger
 
             D  
 Here's your gun
 
 
 (Chorus #2)
       G             D          C                
 For I knew, I could see it was all cut and dried
 
    G            Am                   G               
 to me There was soldier's blue blood streaming inside
 
     D               G                     D     
 your veins There is a world outside of this room
 
            C               G  Am        G     
 And when you meet it promise me you won't meet
 
              D                         G       C    
 It with your gun taking aim no I don?t mean to argue
 
            G                    C            
 That they've made a decent boy of you I don't
 
 G                   D               C               
 mean to spoil your home coming, but Baby brother you
 
                 G  
 would expect me to.
 
 
 (4 bars of G)
 
           Am             G                   D  
 Stock and barrel, safety trigger here?s your gun
 
        G                                                   
 So now does your heart pitter-pat with that patriotic sound
 
          Am                 G         D     
 When you see the stripes of Old Glory waving
 
 
 (Chorus #3)
       G            D          C                    G 
 For I knew I could see It was all cut and dried to me
 
           Am                   G                    
 There was soldier's blue blood Streaming inside your
 
 D               G                     D            
 veins There's a world outside of this room And when
 
 C                   G  Am        G           
 you meet it promise me you won't meet it With
 
      D                           G        C         
 your gun, taking aim For I don't mean, to argue That
 
         G                    C     G                  
 they've made a decent boy of you I don't mean to spoil
 
      D              C            D   
 your home coming My baby brother Jude
 
            G       C           G           C    
 No I don't mean to hurt you By saying this again
 
            G              D                    C  
 They're so good at making soldiers But they're not
 
                   G  
 as good at making Men