Intro: G  4X 


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

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. 

 C G 3X 

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

D                                                                     C 
Open your arms and I'll fly out of hell up to you 
                     G 
I wish it was true     .C  G 3X G 


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 was you do 
                                                        Am 
Just keep wishing your wishes are true 
                                                   C 
Well your dreams there 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 
But I wish it was true.                C G 5X G 

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

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

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

C G 3X