Age Shant Weary Them

G C D G 2x G C D G Here I Am On Anzac Day, I Work To Pay The Bills G C D A Thousand Miles From Family, A Lone Bugle From The Hills C G C G I Think About The Old Men, Carrying The Weight C C/B Am C G C D G Of Nightmares Past And Present Shedding Tears For Long Lost Mates G C D G Their Wrinkles Tell A Story, Not One Of Fame Or Glory G C D But Sacrifice And Bravery In The Grip Of Purgatory C G C G Of The Time They Gathered Dressed In Green Fighting In The Rain C C/B Am C G C D G D/F# Or Waving To Their Crying Mum As They Boarded The Sydney Train Em G They Say That Age Shan’t Weary Them Cadd9 G Nor The Years Condemn Cadd9 G/B Am But In Their Eyes You See It Cadd9 G C D G The Shadows Of Mayhem G C D G Spent Weeks And Months On Trains And Ships, No Overnight First Class Trip G C D All Equal In Their Unknown Fate, Where Would This Journey End? C G C G Would They Sail To Africa? India Or England? C C/B Am C G C D G For Now They Make Their Home At Sea, Left To Sit And Wonder G C D G Five Weeks From Australian Shores, Back On Land At Last G C D Trained In The And Of Egypt, The Jack High On The mast C G C G In The Shadows Of The Pyramids, They Readied For The Worst C C/B Am C G C D G D/F# The One Thing They All Wondered: Who Would Go There First? Em G They Say That Age Shan’t Weary Them Cadd9 G Nor The Years Condemn Cadd9 G/B Am But In Their Eyes You See It Cadd9 G C D G The Shadows Of Mayhem G C D G Now Back Aboard Another Ship, No April Fool Or Party Tricks G C D Set Sail For Gallipoli, Preparing For The Worst C G C G Some Asked Why We Bothered, Despatched As Canon Fodder C C/B Am C G But The Anzacs Fought With Bravery While Their Mates Died In The Water G C D G G C D C G C G C C/B Am C G C D G G C D G Now We Gather Every April, To remember All The Fallen G C D The Young And Old Stand Side By Side In The Darkness Of The Morning C G C G We Gather For The Diggers; Not Just Of Gallipoli C C/B Am C G Of All The Conflicts Then And Now, They Served For You and Me G C D G And I've listened to that bugler, every single year G C D When I hear The Last Post, My Eyes Fill Up With Tears C G C G When the Piper Fills His Bag And Lets Out His Lament C C/B Am C G C D G D/F# I Thank The Anzacs For What Their Sacrifice Has Meant Em G Yes They Say That Age Shan’t Weary Them Cadd9 G Nor The Years Condemn Cadd9 G/B Am But In Their Eyes You See It Cadd9 G C D G The Shadows Of Mayhem