Bruce Springsteen – The Wall (Guitar)

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Unreleased, Live November 16 2005 version
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Cigarettes and a bottle of beer, this poem that I wrote for you

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This black stone and these hard tears they're all I've got left now of you

    Bm                                                                    D
I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing, laughing at your ship out party

          Bm                            D
I've read Robert McNamara, he says he's sorry

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Yeah, you and your boots and black t-shirt, oh, Billy you looked so bad

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Yeah you and your rock and roll band was the best thing this shit town ever had

        Bm                                                    D
Now the men that put you here eat with their families in rich dining halls

      Bm                                         D
And apology and forgiveness got no place here at all, here at the wall

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I'm sorry that I missed you last year, I couldn't find no one to drive me

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If your eyes could cut through that black stone, tell me would they recognize me

        Bm                                  D
For the living time it must be served, life goes on

    Bm                                      D
Cigarettes and a bottle of beer and skin on black stone
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High school pictures and paper flowers, there's ribbons as red as the blood

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Yeah as the blood you spilled in the Central Highlands mud

         Bm                                             D
Now the limousines rush down Pennsylvania Avenue as the rain falls

 Bm                                       D
Apology and forgiveness got no place here at all