Misc Originals – Alana Brezenski - The Cause (Guitar)

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See the original artist perform here [Verse 1]
  Am            C          G               Am
In Lexington in 75 the redcoats moved to sieze

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A cache of farmers weapons their only guard of liberty

    Am               C                 G                    Am
At dawn a trembling soldier fired the shot heard round the world

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This is the story my father told me since I was a little girl
[Chorus]
  D            Cadd9                    G                 D
We sing these stories for the men who fought war in our names

  D                Cadd9                    G                   D
Should we ever forget their sacrifice they'll all have died in vain

   D                Cadd9            G              D
These men sought no fortune nor to garner a heros fame

    D            Cadd9           G                     D
Oppression and tyranny were the beasts they sought to tame
[Verse 2]
   Am                C                  G               Am
The war raged on for 8 long years many men lost their lives

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Sons, brothers and husbands who never made it home to see their wives

   Am               C                 G          Am
The sacrifice of bodies a terror I never had to see

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But I know their lives were given so today we could live free
[Verse 3]
  Am               C                    G                  Am
Selfless acts of courage have always formed the soldiers creed

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The General walked the battlefield among the men that he would lead

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Merchants, tradesmen and farmers joined a common cause to defend

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Through starvation and cold of winter they fought until the end
[Chorus]
  D            Cadd9                    G                 D
We sing these stories for the men who fought war in our names

  D               Cadd9                      G                  D
Should we ever forget their sacrifice they'll all have died in vain

   D                Cadd9            G              D
These men sought no fortune nor to garner a heros fame

    D            Cadd9           G                     D
Oppression and tyranny were the beasts they sought to tame
[Verse 4]
  Am                  C              G               Am
When war ended their most difficult task they'd undertake

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For now ordinary citizen solders their own country must make

   Am                C                G            Am
Our awe-inspiring founding, some try today to diminish

   Am                      C            G            D
With their appologies they seek, this country to finish

   Am              C                       G            Am
Despite their complaining this much I'm certain when I say

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You'll find no place on Earth with more Freedom than America has today