Just does a little hammer-on pick down to C and then back up to G7.
Intro: G7, C (x4)
G7 C
Got a song about a soldier,
G7 C
Ridin' somewhere on a train
G7 C
Empty sleeve pinned to his shoulder
G7 C
And some pills to ease the pain
F C
Started drinkin' in El Paso,
F C
He was drunk in San Antone,
F C
Tellin' strangers who were sleepin'
G7 D7
How he hated goin' home
Chorus 1:
C G7
Just a simple song of freedom,
C G7
He was never fightin' for,
C G7
No one's listenin' when you need 'em,
F C Am
Ain't no fun to sing that song no more.
G7 C
Got a song about a sister,
G7 C
Waitin' somewhere by the phone,
G7 C
For some man who never missed her,
G7 C
Ever since he come and gone
F C
And it's harder for a woman,
F C
With a baby on the way,
F C
That's the price of bein' human,
G7 D7
When you're poor enough to pay,
C G7
So she listens to the freedom,
C G7
In the silence at her door
C G7
No one's missin' till you need 'em
F C Am
Ain't no fun to sing that song no more
G7 C
Got a song about a Savior,
G7 C
Lookin' lonesome and afraid,
G7 C
At a city full of strangers,
G7 C
And a cross He never made
F C
And He's sadder than He's wiser,
F C
And a longer way from home,
F C
And He wonders why His Father,
G7 D7
Left Him bleeding and alone.
C G7
Just a broken song of freedom,
C G7
And the closing of a door,
C G7
No one's missin' till you need 'em
F C Am
Ain't no fun to sing that song no more.