Pink Floyd – When The Tigers Broke Free (Guitar)

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First tab, sorry if it's a bit wrong! I think it's more accurate than the version on here already, the only thing to note is the F is a single strum, which goes quickly into the C. If you listen to the song, you'll know what I'm talking about.

C                   G
It was just before dawn

               C
One miserable morning in black 'forty four.

When the forward commander

     G
Was told to sit tight

         C                     F     C
When he asked that his men be withdrawn.

C                      G
And the Generals gave thanks

                    C
As the other ranks held back

The enemy tanks for a while. And the Anzio bridgehead

     G
Was held for the price

     C
Of a few hundred ordinary lives.

C                  G
And kind old King George

               C
Sent Mother a note

When he heard that father was gone.

C            G
It was, I recall,

                   C
In the form of a scroll,

                F   C
With gold leaf and all.

C                   G
And I found it one day

                    C
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.

        C                         G
And my eyes still grow damp to remember

             C
His Majesty signed

With his own rubber stamp.

C
It was dark all around.

G
There was frost in the ground

C
When the tigers broke free.

C              G
And no one survived

                     C           F  C
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.

C                      G
They were all left behind,

              C
Most of them dead,

The rest of them dying.

C                   G
And that's how the High Command

         C
Took my daddy from me.