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by Levellers



Another Man's Cause
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By the Levellers - From the album "Levelling the Land"
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This is a great song. Simple to play (like most of the Leveller's stuff),
but is enhanced by adding rythmic hammer-ons and pull-offs in the latter
stages. Listen to the song and get into it...

Intro
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Verse 1
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    Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
         
    It's just another firefight
                                 
    For the people of this little town
        
    But for the dying soldier
              
    Well he's feeling ten years older
                                  
    As he's lying face down on the ground
    
    All the words that are in his head 
        
    And all the words that his mother said
                                    
    As she would put him to bed back home

Chorus
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    Your Daddy when he died in the Falklands
                
    Fighting for another man's cause
                                        
    And your brother he was killed in the last war
                                         
    And your mother, well she's lying home alone

Verse Two
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    Everyday she sees your face 
           
    On the picture on the fireplace
                                       
    With your brother as he was leaving school
           
    Then a day came five years ago
             
    You said "Mother, I need to know"
                                                
    And you spoke the words your brother spoke before
    
    "I know the things my Daddy done
             
    And I've seen the medals that he's won
                                                  
    And I know this is what he would have wanted for me

     

    CHORUS
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Bridge
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    Now she wonders at it all
                                               
    Just in whose name, do these brave young heros fall
                                        
    And how many more are gonna answer that call
                                                 
    They're gonna fight and die in another country's war
                                                      
    They're gonna die for a religion didn't believe in at all
                                                       
    They're gonna die in a place they should never been at all
        
    Oh, never been at all

    CHORUS
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Lose yourself in the cresendo bit
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        (Repeat six times)

    CHORUS
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This document was done by Jeremy Aston. Any corrections, enhancements are
always appreciated.

jeremya@pavilion.co.uk
+44 01903 774502