Lucero – The Blue And The Gray (Guitar)

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[Intro] Em7 D Cadd9 G D G [Verse]
    Em7            D
The family's been here for

    Cadd9        G
The last hundred years

         G        D         G
And it's all that he's ever known

Em7          D
Life in the cotton fields

Cadd9          G
Swamps and the rolling hills

G             D        G
Always called Arkansas home

D
But when the war came like his father before

C             G
He joined the army

C               G
And went to the war

Em7          D
Leaving the rolling hills

Cadd9          G
Swamps and the cotton fields

G           D        G
Bound for a Normandy shore
[Riff] Em7 D Cadd9 G D G [Verse 2]
Em7               D
The patch that he wore on

Cadd9      G
His uniform

    G    D        G
Was both blue and grey

    Em7       D
The colors of men who died

Cadd9      G      
Fighting another fight

    G    D           G
And more would die today

   D
At Omaha beach against Germany

  Cadd9         G
A young country boy

          C          G
Struggled out of the sea

Em7       D
Up on the sand where

Cadd9  G
Many a man

      G     D          G
Would never know victory
[Riff] Em7 D Cadd9 G D G [Verse 3]
Em7          D
Fought the entire time

Cadd9     G    
Up on the front line

       G       D          G
It was lonely, bloody and cold

Em7        D
The only relief he'd find

C             G
Might be some old French wine

    G             D         G
The water was all dirty and froze

           D
But he was luckier than some, a better soldier than most

   Cadd9              G
He came back from Europe

    C         G
But never got home

Em7           D
Now he's back on the farm

Cadd9   G
But not out of harm

   G            D             G
He drank so the pain wouldn't show
[Riff] Em7 D Cadd9 G D G [Verse 4]
Em7            D
Well he left behind

Cadd9         G
My brothers and I

   G            D           G
We never really knew him at all

  Em7      D 
I barely remember him

Cadd9   G
Smoking with a grin

G           D              G
But looking mean; standing tall

D
Well I can only hope that he wouldn't be ashamed

C            G
Of the man I become

        C           G
And the life that I made

    Em7        D
And he did the hardest part

    C               G
And lived life with all his heart

      G       D             G
And I hope I don't let him down
[Outro] Em7 D Cadd9 G D G