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1939 Returning
Pete Doherty
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Peter Doherty
1939 returning
Intro
Am
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For The end of the verse
...his night
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Verse:
A#m C7
Captured clandestine
Fm Cm
Crawled into the lights
C# G# F#
He knew he was in for a shoeing
Ebm E F
Just wasn't to be his night
A#m C7
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine
Fm Cm
For the Motherland and the Third Reich
C# G# F#
A toeing's as good as a shoeing
Ebm E F
When it's not to be your night
Chorus:
A#m
Tread carefully, so carefully
A
Upon the drifting ice
Dmaj7
Caught behind enemy lines
E F
In 1939
A#m
For Germany
A
he sacrificed his life
Dmaj7
Caught behind enemy lines
E F Am
There in 1939
Am
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Verse:
A#m C7
Kids knee-deep in rubble
Fm Cm
London urchins grey with dust
C# G# F#
Packed off ours in evacuations
Ebm
To farmers' wives
Green and pleasant lives
E F
Far from the doodlebugs
A#m C7
Nanna Doll she still remembers
Fm Cm
Leaving town in worn-out shoes
C# G# F#
Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations
Ebm E F
Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues
Chorus:
A#m
Tread carefully, so carefully
A
Upon the drifting ice
Dmaj7
Staring blank into the TV guide
E F
In 2009
A#m A
How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice
Dmaj7
Since you went west for the second time
E F
Since 1939
Outro
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