Hunters And Collectors

What's A Few Men(Chords)

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Key: G

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	        Standard Tuning.  All chords are open chords.  I am unsure of 
the fill section at the end of each chorus - but I think its 
based around a 'C-shape' sliding upto a D (comments please). 
Catch later Andrew. 
 
Intro 
G played lightly. 
 
Verse 1 
				C 
The colonel said 'these bodies stink' 
      D				   G 
Won't someone come and drag them away 
					 C 
We tried to clean em' out but the more I stare 
	D				G 
And the English colonel turns the other way 
					  C 
Oh the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak 
       D					G 
Well I ran for the trench but I did not turn to speak 
					   C 
Well my heart said 'yes' but my head said 'no' 
	 D				   G 
When the English colonel said 'its time to go' 
 
Chorus 
		      D  Dsus4   Am 
He said 'what's a few men?' 
		       C	Em 
said 'what's a few men?' 
			D  Dsus4   Am 
said 'what's a few men?' 
		       C		D (fill bit) 
said 'what's a few men?' 
 
Verse 1 
			   C 
The colonel's job is never done' 
   D				     G 
So he declares time out on Christmas day 
			 C 
We held the enemy in our arms 
        D				  G 
And we ploughed each others dead into the clay 
				       C 
Oh the lord said that death will be no longer 
    D				  G 
And all of these things will pass away 
					 C 
There'll be no sorrow and there'll be no pain 
    D				       G 
And we'll swap cigarettes on Christmas day 
					   C 
Well my heart said 'yes' but my head said 'no' 
	 D				   G 
When the English colonel said 'its time to go' 
 
Chorus  
 
Chords till outro end on G 
 

	        

Written by Hunters & Collectors/Mark Seymour

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