STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - "wasted life" Tablature
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Wasted Life (Stiff Little Fingers)
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Intro
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This intro. riff can be played for as many bars as you like.
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Verse 1
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A
I could be a soldier
G
Go out there and fight to save this land
A
Be a people's soldier
G
Paramilitary gun in hand
A
I won't be a soldier
G
I won't take no orders from no-one
A
Stuff their fuckin' armies
G
Killing isn't my idea of fun
Chorus
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E A
And they wanna waste my life
E A
They wanna waste my time
E A
They wanna waste my life
G D A
And they've stolen it away
Verse 2
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A
I could be a hero
G
Live and die for their important cause
A
A united nation
G
Or an independent state with laws
A
And rules and regulations
G
That merely cause disturbances and wars
A
And that's what I have got now
G
All thanks to the freedom seeking hoardes
{Repeat chorus}
Bridge
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F# E
I'm not gonna be taken in
F# E
They said if I don't join I just can't win
F# E
I've heard that story many times before
F# G#
And every time I've thrown it out the door
Solo
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Verse 3
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A
Still they come up to me
G
With a different name and same old face
A
I can see the connection
G
With another time and another place
A
No they ain't blond-haired or blue-eyed
G
But they think that they're the master race
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They're nothing but blind fascists
G
Brought up to hate and given lives to waste
{repeat chorus twice}
Worked out by (i.e. not necessarily 100% correct but as near as I can get it)
Gordon Johnston <328gj@alph1.dev.esoc.esa.de>
"A Scotsman in Germany"
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