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Steve Earle - Rich Man's War (Chord)
Album: The Revolution Starts Now (2004)
Submitter: lmofle (1030) on 10/17/04 4 comments
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Rich Man’s War
By Steve Earle
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com
10/17/2004

Capo 2

D                               A               D 
Jimmy joined the army ‘cause he had no place to go
      D                                                               Em
There ain’t nobody hirin’ ‘round here since all the jobs went down to Mexico
G                                                      A
Reckoned that he’d learn himself a trade maybe see the world
G                                    A
Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl
G                       D          
Somebody somewhere had another plan
G                    D
Now he’s got a rifle in his hand
D                    A                         Bm   G
Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far
D                     A                         D     
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war


Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war


Bride:
Bm           G
When will we ever learn
D            A
When will we ever see
Bm              G
We stand up and take our turn
D              A
And tellin’ ourselves we’re free


Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way
He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
Thanks Larry, sounds right on, it was the B Minor that was fooling me!
-AaronCain | 10/17/2004
well done, THANK YOU, very much:) peace out
-duke_ropes | 11/28/2004
I think Roscoe's little licks round the end of each verse are something like:
pre>
e------------------------------
B------------------------------
G------------------------------
D------0-2-2-0----------0------
A-0-2h4-------4-2-0-2h4--------
E-------------------------0-2-4
/pre>
Ta
Printie
-printie | 1/6/2005
seems right on to me man, keep truckin'

-hippie14 | 6/20/2005
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