Biography:
Levellers is a popular English rock band influenced by punk and traditional English music. The band is based in Brighton, England, where they were founded in 1988. There are several stories regarding how they got their name; from the Levellers, a radically democratic faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army; as a reference to "The Level", a flat open space near where members of the band used to live in Brighton; or simply, according to guitarist, Simon Friend, a word they chose from a dictionary.
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Other songs:
- 100 Years Of Solitude
- 61 Minutes Of Pleading
- Alone In This Darkness
- Angels
- Another Mans Cause
- Barrel Of A Gun
- Battle Of The Beanfield
- Behold The Pale Rider
- Belaruse
- Believers
- Broken Circles
- Carry Me
- Cctv
- Celebrate
- Come On
- Confess
- Dance Before The Storm
- Dirty Davey
- Dog Train
- Edge Of The World
- Elation
- Fantasy
- Far Away From Home
- Far From Home
- Fifteen Years
- Four Winds
- Gold And Silver
- Hard Fight
- Havent Made It
- Hope Street
- Is This Art
- Julie
- Leave This Town
- Liberty Song
- Life
- Likes Of You And I
- Love Runs Out Of Time
- Maid Of The River
- Make You Happy
- Men
- Miles Away
- No Change
- On Way
- One Way
- Pretty Target
- Prisoner
- Rain And Snow
- Sail Away
- Saturday To Sunday
- Sell Out
- Survivors
- The Beach
- The Boatman
- The Game
- The Games
- The Player
- The Players
- The Recruiting Sergeant
- The Riverflow
- The Road
- The Shame
- Three Friends
- Together All The Way
- Too Real
- Traveller
- Truth Is
- Tv Suicides
- We Are All Gunmen
- What A Beautiful Day
- What Happens To Love
- Wheels
- When Love Runs Out Of Time
- Wild As Angels
- World Freak Show
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By the Levellers - From the album "Levelling the Land"
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This is a great song. Simple to play (like most of the Leveller's stuff),
but is enhanced by adding rythmic hammer-ons and pull-offs in the latter
stages. Listen to the song and get into it...
[Intro]
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Am G F G
Am G F G
[Verse 1]
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Am
Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
G
It's just another firefight
F G
For the people of this little town
Am
But for the dying soldier
G
Well he's feeling ten years older
F G
As he's lying face down on the ground
Am
All the words that are in his head
G
And all the words that his mother said
F G
As she would put him to bed back home
[Chorus]
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C G Am
Your Daddy when he died in the Falklands
C G Am
Fighting for another man's cause
C G Am
And your brother he was killed in the last war
C G Am
And your mother, well she's lying home alone
Verse Two
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G F G
Am G F G
Am
Everyday she sees your face
G
On the picture on the fireplace
F G
With your brother as he was leaving school
Am
Then a day came five years ago
G
You said "Mother, I need to know"
F G
And you spoke the words your brother spoke before
Am
"I know the things my Daddy done
G
And I've seen the medals that he's won
F G G Am
And I know this is what he would have wanted for me
G Am
[Chorus]
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[Bridge]
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F G Am G
Now she wonders at it all
F G Am G
Just in whose name, do these brave young heros fall
F G Am G
And how many more are gonna answer that call
F G Am G
They're gonna fight and die in another country's war
F G Am G
They're gonna die for a religion didn't believe in at all
F G Am
They're gonna die in a place they should never been at all
Am
Oh, never been at all
[Chorus]
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Lose yourself in the cresendo bit
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C G Am Am (Repeat six times)
[Chorus]
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This is a great song. Simple to play (like most of the Leveller's stuff),
but is enhanced by adding rythmic hammer-ons and pull-offs in the latter
stages. Listen to the song and get into it...
[Intro]
+++++
Am G F G
Am G F G
[Verse 1]
+++++++
Am
Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
G
It's just another firefight
F G
For the people of this little town
Am
But for the dying soldier
G
Well he's feeling ten years older
F G
As he's lying face down on the ground
Am
All the words that are in his head
G
And all the words that his mother said
F G
As she would put him to bed back home
[Chorus]
++++++
C G Am
Your Daddy when he died in the Falklands
C G Am
Fighting for another man's cause
C G Am
And your brother he was killed in the last war
C G Am
And your mother, well she's lying home alone
Verse Two
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G F G
Am G F G
Am
Everyday she sees your face
G
On the picture on the fireplace
F G
With your brother as he was leaving school
Am
Then a day came five years ago
G
You said "Mother, I need to know"
F G
And you spoke the words your brother spoke before
Am
"I know the things my Daddy done
G
And I've seen the medals that he's won
F G G Am
And I know this is what he would have wanted for me
G Am
[Chorus]
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[Bridge]
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F G Am G
Now she wonders at it all
F G Am G
Just in whose name, do these brave young heros fall
F G Am G
And how many more are gonna answer that call
F G Am G
They're gonna fight and die in another country's war
F G Am G
They're gonna die for a religion didn't believe in at all
F G Am
They're gonna die in a place they should never been at all
Am
Oh, never been at all
[Chorus]
++++++
Lose yourself in the cresendo bit
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
C G Am Am (Repeat six times)
[Chorus]
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