Roger Waters – The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard (Guitar)

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Artist: Roger Waters Song: The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard Album: Amused To Death [Chord variants]
G7sus4  355532
Gmb6    365343
Gsus2 355000 Ebm/Bb x11343 [Intro] G7sus4 Gmb6 G7sus4 Gmb6 Gmb6 Cm7/G D/A Gsus2 Eb/Bb Gmb6 D/A Gsus2 F Eb/Bb Gmb6 Dm/A Eb/Bb F [Spoken word: Alf Razzell]
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 Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to collect the paybooks

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And when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land

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 I was picked up and taken into their trench

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 And I'd no sooner taken two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call

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"Hello Razz, I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here," and he said

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"I'm feeling bad," and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in England

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One of the original battalion

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I had a look at his wound, rolled him over, I could see it was probably a fatal wound

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You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat

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And after I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been

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Had there been a path or a road I could have done better

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He pummeled me, "Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put me down"

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                          I was hoping he would faint
n.c. He said "I can't go any further, let me die" n.c. I said "If I leave you here Bill you won"t be found, let's have another go"
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 He said "All right then" And the same thing happened

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He couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land