[Intro] G 

G                  C          G
Mother,try to do right by you
                C         G
To do what you asked me to
          D           G  C G
I did wrong and I knew  

G                  C            G
Mother I tried to behave for you
                     C           G
Now I'm a digging a grave for you
         D           G  C  G
It was all I could do                      

D                                C
Find a way back home, make everything new
                 G
But I wish it was true

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G                         C       G
Father, well I gave my soul to you
                 C         G
I came in blind folded for you
        D           G  C  G
It was all that I knew   

D                                            C
Open your arms and I'll fly out of hell up to you
             G      C  G  
I wish it was true     

Am                         C
Boy come on out from the cold
                                   G
Your lost outside there, don't you know
                                 D
It's not what you say it's what you do
                                   Am
Just keep wishing your wishes are true
                                C
Well your dreams they're reality now
                                  G
There's no pain there's no misery
                                     D
Just polish the blood and the bruise
                           C
There's just no way you can lose
                 G        C  G 
But I wish it was true

G                C           G
Country, I was a soldier for you
                C       G
I did what you asked me to
       D             G        C  G
It was wrong and you knew      

G                       C           G
Country, now I'm just a stranger to you
            C        G
A number a name it's true
         D                G          C  G
Throw me away when you're through 

D                                          C
Home of the brave and free, the red white and blue
                  G
But I wish it was true

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