Steve Dean - We Shot The Pictures
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
We Shot the Pictures
[Intro]
A (8 beats)
[Verse 1]
A
The film went back from Cam Ranh Bay
A
In a classified bag to the USA
D
But the negatives stay in my mind
D
I've looked at them a million times
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A A
They shot the guns
[Verse 2]
A
Never belonged just tagged along
A
Didn't fit in wasn't one of them
D
They were fighting to keep each other alive
D
I was a 1LT with a Nixon 35
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A
They shot the guns
[Chorus]
D
It ain't all in black and white
D
The blood runs red in the middle of the night
A
There's a place to hide but no escape
A
We froze time in a hell of a place
Bm C#m D
The Gallery of War
E
The late Great 68
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A A
they shot the guns
[Verse 3]
A
While the survivors of a firefight
A
Are digging in for a long night
D
We fly out with the wounded and dead
D
And fight with guilt in a warm dry bed
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A
They shot the guns
[Chorus]
D
It ain't all in black and white
D
The blood runs red in the middle of the night
A
There's a place to hide but no escape
A
We froze time in a hell of a place
Bm C#m D
The Gallery of war
E
The late Great 68
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A
they shot the guns
Lead (4 measures) A Bm G#m Bm D
[Bridge]
D
I made a deal with the prayers I prayed
A
If I lived through this I'd pay it back one day
D
When people walk through those halls they’ll see
E
The truth there on display
Bm C#m
The orphans the widows
D
The soldiers and the pain
Bm
Won't be left in the jungle
E
Standing in the rain
Outro (quiet)
D
It ain't all in black and white
D
The blood runs red in the middle of the night
A
There's a place to hide but no escape
A
We froze time in a hell of a place
Bm C#m D
The Gallery of War
E
The late Great 68
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
A G#m A
They shot the guns
Bm C#m D
We shot the pictures
How to play Steve Dean - We Shot The Pictures
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