Misc Musicals – From Here To Eternity - Thirty Year Man (Guitar)

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*If you have time to put a capo on 1st fret here and transpose down one, go for it, because that last part is a killer with all those barre chords otherwise. [Intro] Dm Bb C G [Verse 1]
  Dm
I knew when I enlisted

    Dm/C#
Military life existed

       Dm/C
For to break you down

                 G   Bb
Destroy you by degrees

         Dm
But then any kind of living

         Dm/C#
Would be just as unforgiving

        Dm/C
For the outside like the inside

         G    Bb
Ain’t no breeze
[Verse 2]
               Dm
And though you give up your ambition

    Dm/C#
Do so on one condition

          Dm/C
That some other bastard

                G   Bb
Has to make the plan

            Dm
Oh it’s the same ol’ GI story

          Dm/C#
You don’t sell your soul for glory

        Dm/C
But for freedom

                         G  
To leave thinking to the man
[Pre-chorus]
Bb       Dm
I wanted out

           Dm/C#
From being poorer than poor

        Dm/C
From Kentucky where I knew

           G  A7
I couldn’t win

         Dm
I wanted out

        Dm/C#
And the only light I saw

        Dm/C
Was the army

                    G A7
And I knew I wanted in
[Chorus]
Dm
  Thirty Year Man

Bb
  Thirty Year Man

C
 Thirty Year Man
Gm [Verse 3]
      Dm
We’re told the war is coming

         Dm/C#
That the bombs will soon be humming

          Dm/C                         G    Bb
That this paradise will soon be up the creek

   Dm
So get your shit together, hurry!

      Dm/C#
But I say there ain’t no worry

         Dm/C                           G    Bb
I’ve got thirty years so what’s another week?
[Verse 4]
           Dm
Oh this is white trash happy waiting

         Dm/C#
We’ve no problem contemplating

          Dm/C                            G   Bb
Different people marching to the same ol’ drum

       Dm
Jews, Italians, Hispanics,

        Dm/C#
Polacs, Negros, no one panicks

      Dm/C                                G
I got thirty years, I’ll take ‘em as they come
[Pre-chorus]
Bb          Dm
One thing I want (one thing I want)

           Dm/C#
And she’ll see me alright

     Dm/C                            G
Is a shack-up waiting on the edge of town

A          Dm
I want her now (I want her now)

         Dm/C#
But I’ll settle for tonight

       Dm/C                        G   A7
Golden body and the softness going down
[Chorus]
Dm
  Thirty Year Man

Bb
  Thirty Year Man

C
 Thirty Year Man
Gm [Bridge]*
D#m              D#m/D
   So the army’s family

   D#m/C#             G#
It feeds me, keeps me well

             B           C#            D#m
And the life outside was sure a living hell.

              D#m/D
So give me my orders, Sergeant

           D#m/C#    G#
Just don’t give me a plan

                     B                   D#m C#
You’ve got your volunteer, Robert E. Lee Prewitt
[Outro]
         D#m
I’m your man

       D#m/D   D#m/C#
Thirty Year Man

       D#m/D    D#m
Thirty Year Man

        D#m/C#  B
Thirty Year Man

       A#
Thirty Year Man

        D#m D#m/C# A#m C#         B
There’s no  one    out there that I miss

D#m D#m/C A#m   C# B
No  one   cares if I exist

    D#m  D#m/C# B C#  G#  A#7
The best thing  I did was enlist

                A#7 D#m
For thirty years