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Safe Behind The Wire by John Schumann
Safe Behind The Wire
Capo:no capo
Intro
D A D
D
When the bodies were bagged and the telegrams sent
G D
And the very last chopper had gone
D G D Bm A
And you looked out the window of the 707 on the airfield in Saigon,
D Bm
Some of us thought that the war was over
G D
Some of us couldn’t care less;
G D G A
But you came home and threw a stay-behind party to try to clear up the mess.
G D A D
I don’t know where you are tonight..I’m down here in a firefight…
F#m G A D
But where-ever you are, I hope you’re safe behind the wire.
D Bm G D
We were fighting for freedom in South-East Asia…. That’s how the story ran;
G D Bm A
Windy speeches about a domino falling from China into Vietnam…
D Bm G D
But look back in sickness and anger, Australia didn’t honour her debt;
G D G A
And non-commission Officer Thompson learned that the war wasn’t over yet.
G D A D
Living on your nerves, living on the phone and sleeping in airports far from
home….
F#m G A D
Dusted off now and safe behind the wire.
Instrumental: A G D A G
D Bm G D
Well he have and he gave and he kept on giving, till he just couldn’t give
anymore;
G D Bm A
And he gave it away one morning in Sydney in a rust-red Commodore…
D Bm G D
And I remember Phill best talking on the phone, with a cheeky grin on his face….
G D
Because Royal Commissioners and Knights of the Realm
G A
Thought that Phill didn’t know his place.
G D A D
I don’t know where you are tonight..I’m down here in a firefight…
F#m G A D
But where-ever you are, I hope you’re safe behind the wire.
A G D
And the’re still bagging bodies, Phill, though fourteen years have gone;
A G A
And the mums and the dads and the wives and the kids still have to soldier on.
G D A D
I don’t know where you are tonight..I’m down here in a firefight…
F#m G A D
But where-ever you are, I hope you’re safe behind the wire.
G D A D
I don’t know where you are tonight..I’m down here in a firefight…
F#m G A D G A D
But where-ever you are, I hope you’re safe behind the wire.
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