The General 1

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  • INTRO (Standard Tuning)
     
    Bb F Cm G D#
  • --------------------------------------3-3--3-----------------------
    -------------3-3----------------------4-4--3----------------8-8----
    -------------3-3-3--------------------5-5--4----------------8-8----
  • -------------3-3-3--3-3^5-3-----------5-5--5----------------8-8----
    ------3-1----1-1-3----------5-3-----3-3-3--5------1-3-1-----6-6----
    1-3-1-----3------1--------------6-3--------3--1-3-------3----------
  •  
    Bb F
    ---6--1-1-x-1-1----------------------------------------------------
  • ---6--1-1-x-1-1----------------------------------------------------
    ---7--2-2-x-2-2----------------------------------------------------
    ---8--3-3-x-3-3----------------------------------------------------
  • ---8--3-3-x-3-3----------------------------------------------------
    -6-6--1-1-x-1-1----------------------------------------------------
     
  • The song from there is the same chords with different strumming
    patterns depending on the segment except for after "go now you are
    forgiven."
  •  
    -------3-3--3---------------1-1--1--------------------------
    -------3-3--3---------------1-1--1--------------------------
  • -2-3-3-3-3--3---------------2-2--2-----------------------------
    -3-4-5-5-5--5---------------3-3--3-----------------------------
    -3-4-5-5-5--5--1-3-1--------3-3--3--------------------------------
  • -1-2-3-3-3--3--------3-2-1--1-1--1--------------------------------
     
    Lyrics
  •  
    There was a decorative general with a heart of gold,
    That likened him to all the stories he told,
  • of past battles won and lost and legends of old,
    a seasoned veteran in his own time.
     
  • On the battlefield he gained respectful fame,
    with many medals of bravery and stripes to his name,
    He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face,
  • and always urged his men on.
     
    But on the eve of great battle with the infantry in dream,
  • the old general tossed in his sleep, and wrestled its meaning
    he awoke from that night, to tell what he had seen,
    and walked slowly out of his tent.
  •  
    All the men held tall with their chests in the air
    with thier courage in thier blood and a fire in their stare
  • and it was a gray morning and they all wondered how they would fare
    till the old general told them to go home.
     
  • He said...
     
    I have seen the others, and I have discovered,
  • that this fight is not worth fighting.
    And ive seen their mothers, and I will no others
    to follow me where im going... so.
  • Take a shower shine your shoes, you got no time to loose
    you are young men you must be living.
     
  • (This part Twice)
     
    go now you are forgiven
  •  
    But the men stood fast with their guns on thier shoulders
    not knowing what to do with the contradicting orders
  • the general said he would do his own duty but extend it no further
    the men could go as they pleased
    But not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead,
  • till one by one they stepped back and not a word was said
    and the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head
    he never prepared to fight.
  •  
    He said...
     
  • The verses are writen so that at the beginnin of each line should be
    Bb, Cm, D#, F, ending with the F, G, Bb,
     
  • Thats pretty much the easiest way to fake it.
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