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Big & Rich - 8th Of November (Chord)
Album: Comin' to Your City (2005)
Submitter: Shantel (113) on 11/9/05 8 comments
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8th Of November - Big & Rich
Album: Comin' To Your City


Intro: A   G  D  (x2)

          A
Said goodbye to his mama as he left South Dakota
    G                            D
To fight for the red, white and blue
       A                            
He was 19 and green with a new M-16 
      G                   D
Just doin' what he had to do
         A
He was dropped in the jungle where the choppers would rumble
          G                      D
With the smell of napalm in the air
          A                  G
Then the sergeant said, look up ahead

        A
Like a dark evil cloud 1200 came down 
    G          D
On him and 29 more
       A
They fought for their lives but most of them died
       G         D
In the 173rd airborne


Chorus:
        A
On the 8th of November the angels were cryin'
         G                     D
As they carried his brothers away
          A
With the fire raining down and the hell all around
            G                          D
There were few men left standing that day
         F                   G
Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
F  G                 A      G  D
1965, the 8th of November


     A
Now he's 58 and his ponytail's gray
         G                         D
But the battle still plays in his head
    A
He limps when he walks but he's strong when he talks
          G                   D
Bout the shrapnel left in his leg
        A
He puts on a gray suit over his airborne tattoo
        G                     D
And he ties it on one time a year
       A (one strum)
And remembers the fallin' as he order's a tall one
G                          D
Swallows it down with his tears



CHORUS

A   G  D

         F(one strum)        G (one strum)
Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
F  G (one strum each)      
1965


CHORUS x2 (1st 4 lines then whole thing)


          A
Said goodbye to his mama as he left South Dakota
    G                            D
To fight for the red, white and blue
       A                            
He was 19 and green with a new M-16 
      G                   D
Just doin' what he had to do

 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
In the second verse, where it's "'bout the ??? they left in his leg", the word you're looking for is "shrapnel". "'bout the shrapnel they left in his leg".
-zimmiez | 11/11/2005
thanks!
-Shantel | 11/11/2005
OMG! Great tab! Love this new song. Thanks
-mellencampfan | 11/12/2005
does anyone have this song in tabs???
-amy_claire19 | 11/15/2005
this is an AMAZING song. great tab. go big $ rich!
-cubbie21588 | 11/16/2005
This song shows the pain and sacrifice that our people had to go through. Big and Rich deffinetly struck big with this one.
-schutz | 11/26/2005
Great tab, as usual. Just one very minor correction, the line should read: "And remembers the fallen as he orders a tall one".

-crcrcrcr | 12/17/2005

-Shantel | 12/20/2005
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