Tablature the war drags on - Donovan

          



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  From ohig@ihug.co.nz Wed Apr  2 08:52:10 1997

  Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:31:37 -0800

  From: Gary Higgins <ohig@ihug.co.nz>

  To: acoustic@olga.net

  Cc: guitar@olga.net

  Subject: chord  The war drags on  by Donovan leitch

  

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  This is an anti-war song written in the days of nuclear oppression. I don^Òt think Donovan wrote it and at some stage I came across the last verse.This verse is not on the record ( Donovan Universal Soldier 1966)

  

               E                      E7      A                  E 

  Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan

                                                  E7    A            E

  Went out to fight the good fight in South Vietnam

                                             E7                           A              E  

  Went out to fight for peace.----------------------liberty and all

                                              E7      A           F#M            E

  Went out to fight for equality.                     Hope   let^Òs go

  

  

  Chorus

  Em7                 E

  And the war drags on

  

  

  Found himself involved in a sea of blood and bones

  millions without faces--without hope and without homes--

  and the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones

  --that the flesh had long since left just as the people--left their homes--

  

  and the war  drags  on

  

  They^Òre just there to make the people free

  but the way that they^Òre doing it--it don^Òt seem like that to me

  just more blood letting and misery and tears

  --that this poor country^Òs known--for the last twenty years--

  

  and the war drags on

  

  Last night young Dan had a nightmare it seems

  one that kept occurring and reoccurring in his dreams

  millions of people running  --screaming and shouting loud

  and right overhead was a big--mushroom cloud

  

  and there^Òs no more war

  cause there^Òs no more world

  and my tears keep fallin down

  like the rain --on to the blackened ground

  

  Gary Higgins Ohig@ihug.co.nz

  

  This is an anti-war song written in the days of nuclear oppression. I don^Òt think Donovan wrote it and at some stage I came across the last verse.This verse is not on the record ( Donovan Universal Soldier 1966)

  

               E                      E7      A                  E 

  Let me tell you the story of a soldier named Dan

                                                  E7    A            E

  Went out to fight the good fight in South Vietnam

                                             E7                           A              E  

  Went out to fight for peace.----------------------liberty and all

                                              E7      A           F#M            E

  Went out to fight for equality.                     Hope   let^Òs go

  

  

  Chorus

  Em7                 E

  And the war drags on

  

  

  Found himself involved in a sea of blood and bones

  millions without faces--without hope and without homes--

  and the guns they grew louder as they made dust out of bones

  --that the flesh had long since left just as the people--left their homes--

  

  and the war  drags  on

  

  They^Òre just there to make the people free

  but the way that they^Òre doing it--it don^Òt seem like that to me

  just more blood letting and misery and tears

  --that this poor country^Òs known--for the last twenty years--

  

  and the war drags on

  

  Last night young Dan had a nightmare it seems

  one that kept occurring and reoccurring in his dreams

  millions of people running  --screaming and shouting loud

  and right overhead was a big--mushroom cloud

  

  and there^Òs no more war

  cause there^Òs no more world

  and my tears keep fallin down

  like the rain --on to the blackened ground

  

   


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 The war drags on, de Donovan 

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