Capo 4th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Oh Mother are you sleepin'?

Did you pray for me tonight?

Cause I'm alone here on this front line

Hoping I might get back home alive.

I see the bullets flyin',

And I feel the bombs explode.

I close my eyes and pull this trigger

And kill these people I don't even know.

Chorus playing this:

And Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done.

I hope I can still get home to heaven.

I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun.

Got 60 pounds upon my back.

Machine gun in my hand.

All day long clearin burned out shacks.

All these things I know I'll never understand.

For next chorus a 2nd guitar plays this:

And Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done.

I hope I can still get home to heaven.

I wish I had a bible

Instead of this damn gun.

Oh, I wish I had a bible

Instead of this damn gun.

Oh, I wish that I could tell you

I was safe away from harm,

But everytime I close my eyes

Mama, I wish you could hold me in your arms.

And Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done.

I hope I can still get home to heaven.

I wish I had a bible

Instead of this damn gun.

And Mother, please forgive me

For these things that I have seen and done.

I hope I can still get home to heaven.

I wish I had a bible

Instead of this damn gun.

Oh, I wish I had a bible

Instead of this damn gun.