When I Was Young Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]When I was young
I loved a lad in Galew he was [Em]wed
[Am]I knew no greater pleasure
than [C]to follow where he [Em]led
But [Am]when he went away to war,
[G]oh sorrow be to me
[E]For you [Am]can not follow
soldier[G]s
bearing gun[E]s across t[Am]he sea
They made him leave his wife
and child to [Em]march
[Am]Can they make him stalk a stranger
with a [C]bayonet in his [Em]hands?
What [Am]kind of men can force
a man who's [G]married
to [E]agree to [Am]take the lives of [G]men with wives
in [E]lands across [Am]the sea
I know no field [G]more barren
than this life I live [Am]alone[Em]
[Am]I know no sorrow greater
than to see our [C]growing son
[Em]Will [Am]he too become a lively man
[G]till other men [E]decree
[Am]That he lies still as [G]his father does
[E]in a grave across the [Am]sea?
Were I the wind
I'd bring the clouds
to lands that [Em]need the rain
[Am]Were I a bird,
I'd sing of things
that comfort men in [Em]pain
Were [Am]I a statesman
leading men in near [G]or distant [E]lands
[Am]I'd pass a law
[G]that only two rules of peace
[E]would be [Am]in our hands you