What Did You Do In The War Dad by Sonata Arctica, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

What Did You Do In The War Dad

by Sonata Arctica

Biography:

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland. Created as a hard rock band named Tricky Beans, they later changed to Tricky Means and finally to Sonata Arctica, when they shifted to power metal.[1] The current line-up consists of singer, keyboardist and songwriter Tony Kakko, guitarist Elias Viljanen, bass guitarist Pasi Kauppinen, keyboardist and keytarist Henrik Klingenberg, and drummer Tommy Portimo. All the musicians of the band's history except Portimo also acted as backing vocalists.

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"What Did You Do In The War, Dad?" - Sonata Arctica

Intro:

Am F Am G
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B|-13--12-12-13-12-10-|-13--12-12-13-12-10-|-13--12-12-13-12-13-|-13---12---12-------|
G|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
D|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
A|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
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Am Am Am E
Am Am Am E

Gm Eb
Dad, what did you do in the war?
Gm
Something to answer for?
F
You say too young I am to know

Gm Eb
Dad, I've heard you cry at night
Gm
Mournful and desperate blight
F
Where did you learn that song you sing

Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F
Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F

Cm Eb
"War is in me! I was the war!
Gm F
And your praying brings back the suffering
Cm Eb Gm
No, please, don't start to cry
Cm Eb
I only pray you'll never know
Gm F
The things I see every time I close my eyes
Cm Eb Gm F
Angels still have faces"

Gm
What did you do in the war, dad, tell me
Eb Bb F
Why can't you smile when the children sing
Gm Eb Bb F
Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings
Gm Eb Bb
And your soul is now torn, unlike mine
Cm Bb Eb
Do you fear yesterday will in someway
F
Define the life of your child?

Am Am Am E
Am Am Am E
F#m F#m F#m C#
F#m F#m F#m C#
F#m

Gm Eb
Dad, I know what you did in the war
Gm
Deeds devils would abhor
F
Did you filfil the oath you swore?

Gm Eb
Dad, did you do it for me?
Gm
Their blood for my life to live
F
In the hollow without reprieve, without you

Cm Eb
"War is in me! I am the war!
Gm F
Don't you force me to live the nightmare again!
Cm Eb Gm
Please, don't make my cry
Cm Eb
My son, you never ever want to know
Gm F
How when guarding your sleep serene I hear
Cm Eb Gm F
The silence of the children who sang"

Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F

Gm D Eb
Far and beyond the stars there's
Bb Cm
A place where all the love,
D Eb F
All the goodness we could have still resides
Gm D Eb Bb
But we choose life away from the light
Cm D Eb
You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your
F
Beautiful child