Sabaton – 1916 (Guitar Solo Tab)

A                        E
Sixteen years old when I went to the war,

   D                        A 
To fight for a land fit for heroes,

A                     E
God on my side, and a gun in my hand,

D                       A 
Chasing my days down to zero,

A                                E
And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,

      D                 A 
And I never did get any older,

      A                       E
But I knew at the time that a year in the line,

      D                      A 
Was a long enough life for a soldier,

   A                       E
We all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,

       D                      A 
And we added two years to our ages,

A                   E
Eager for life and ahead of the game,

D                   A 
Ready for history’s pages,

       A                            E
And we brawled and we fought and we whored ’til we stood,

D                        A 
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,

  A                           E
A thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,

    D                               A 
And that’s what you are when you’re soldiers,

[Solo]
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C                             G
I heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,

         F                            C
Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother,

      C                     G
And I fell by his side, and that’s how we died,

F                          C
Clinging like kids to each other,

      C                      G
And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,

      F                     C
And I wept as his body grew colder,

      C                        G
And I called for my mother and she never came,

          A#                    F
Though it wasn’t my fault and I wasn’t to blame,

C                               G
And the day’s not half over and ten thousand slain,

    A#                 F
And now there’s nobody remembers our names

F                          Csus2 C
And that’s how it is for a sold  ier.