King Henry Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Kin[Dsus4]g Henry m[C]arc[D]hed forth,
a sword in his [C]hand
[Dsus4]Two thous[D]and horsemen all
at his com[C]mand
In a fort[D]night the [C]rivers ran
Red [D]through the land
The [C]year fifteen hundred
[G]and [D]twenty[C][Dsus4]
[D]The year it is

[Verse 2]
now nineteen sixty-five
[Dsus4]It's It's[C] easier [D]far to stay half-alive
[C]Just Just [D]keep your mouth [C]shut while
The [D]planes zoom and dive
Ten [C]thousand miles over
[Dsus4]the ocean[D][C][D]

[Verse 3]
[D]Simon was drafted in sixty-three
[C]In [D]In sixty-four, sent sent over the [C]sea
[D]Last month this [C]letter he [D]sent to me
[C]He said "You won't like
what I'm [D]sayin'"
He said "We've no friends here
No hardly [Dsus4]a one
[C]We've got[D] a few generals who
Just want our gun[C]s
[Dsus4]But it'll [D]take more than [C]that
If we're [D]ever to win
Why [C]we'll have to flatten the
[D]country"[C][D]

[Verse 4]
"It's my own troops I [D]have
To watch out for", he said
[C]"I sle[D]ep with a pistol
right under my [C]head"
He [D]wrote this last [C]month
Last [D]week he was dead
And Si[C]mon came home in a [D]cas[C]ket[D]

[Verse 5]
I [D]mind my own business, I watch my [C]TV
[Dsus4]Com plain[D] about taxes but pay anyway
[C]In [Dsus4]a civiliz[D]ed manner my[C]
fore[D]fathers betrayed
Who [C]long ago struggled [Dsus4]for freed[D]om[C]

[Verse 6]
[D]But each day a new headline
Screams at my [C]bluff
[Dsus4]On TV som[D]e general says
"We must be [C]tough"
[Dsus4]In my dre[D]ams I sta[C]re at this fam[D]ily I love
All gut[C]ted and spattered
[D]with [C]nap[D]alm

[Verse 7]
King Henry marched [D]forth,
a sword in his [C]hand
[D]Two thousand horsemen
all at his [C]command
In a [D]fortnight the rivers [C]ran
[D]Red through the land
The [C]year fifteen hundred [G]and [D]twenty

[Verse 8]
The year it is [D]now nineteen sixty-five
[C]It's It's [D]easier far to stay half [C]alive
Just [D]keep your mouth [C]shut while
The [D]planes zoom and dive
Ten [C]thousand miles over the [D]ocean[C][D]