Sadr City Chords - The Corb Lund Band

INTRO

E Bm E Bm Riff 1

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Verse 1

E G#m Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this A E 'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared E G#m Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more A E I'm tired and I just don't care E G#m How many tours is too many tours A E My baby she'd like to know E G#m 'Cause always there at the back a'my mind A E Is that Jody's there when I go

Chorus

E Bm Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City E Bm Never let 'em send me back E Bm Some shit went down, down in Sadr City E Bm Some shit went down in Iraq E I ain't goin' back Riff 1

Verse 2

E G#m Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot A E And Muqtada's local fighters emerged E G#m Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two A E And another later during the Surge E G#m Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care A E It was get it out and kick us some ass E G#m Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds A E But they educated me pretty fast

Chorus

E Bm Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City E Bm Never let 'em send me back E Bm Some shit went down, down in Sadr City E Bm Some shit went down in Iraq E I ain't goin' back

Verse 3

E G#m Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light A E Fiercest action that I'd ever seen E G#m Ambush come and we hadda' dismount A E Get busy, fight it out in the streets E G#m Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops A E Haji launchin' RPGs E G#m Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys A E Draggin' on and on week after week E G#m Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby A E But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque E G#m Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy A E But they couldn't help the guys that we lost

Chorus

E Bm Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City E Bm Never let 'em send me back E Bm Some shit went down, down in Sadr City E Bm Some shit went down in Iraq E I ain't goin' back

Verse 4

E G#m Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home A E But they say they're all supportin' the troops E G#m There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that A E Out here thinkin's only for fools E G#m And as long as there's no lack of young man willin' A E To ride to the sound of the guns E G#m I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army A E And of both sides losing their sons

Final Chorus

E Bm They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City E Bm They ain't a-gonna send me back E Bm My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty E Bm It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq E They're sending me back