Song: Bible pages
Artist: Boo Hewerdine
Composer: Boo Hewerdine
Album: Toy box No.1
Tabbed by: DJ
A great anti-war song about a young British soldier in World War I
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of F#m)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= xx0031 = x32010 = xx0233
= xx0231 = 355333 = xx0230
= x02020 = 302020
= 133211 = 102020
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
I was only just fifteen, when I took a shilling from the king,
And the Quartermaster winked at me, he knew I d lied a - bout my age,
I learnt to take apart my gun, and feel tobacco in my lungs,
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Verse 2]
And as we marched up to the line, knew we d be back by winter time,
But we soon learnt only the blind... could find their way back home,
And all through Deuteronomy, I cursed whatever had made me,
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Chorus]
There s no heaven, there s no hell, not as far as I can tell,
There s no Devil, there s no God, only men and mud! | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
When the brass would come around, we d stand our feet sunk in the ground,
They d say we d made our country proud, but their England was not mine,
And we must be prepared to die, but they forgot to tell us why,
And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!
[Chorus]
There s no heaven, there s no hell, not as far as I can tell,
There s no Devil, there s no God, only men and mud! | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
I d not long turned seventeen, when I took the one that finished me,
And I must have lain so peacefully, be - neath the broken sky,
And so they took my life away, and what would the Chaplain say,
If he knew we rolled our cigar - ettes with Bible pages,
All we had to roll our cigar - ettes was Bible pages!
[Coda]
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And we would roll our cigar - ettes with Bible pages!