Brothers Under The Bridge

 
              Intro: (D) 
 
(D) 
Saigon, it was all gone 
     (G) 
The same Coke machines 
          (D) 
As the streets I grew on 
Down in a mesquite canyon 
We come walking along the ridge 
             (G      Bm  A         D) 
Me and the brothers under the bridge 
   (D) 
Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town 
                           (G) 
Up here there's too much brush and canyon 
                     (D) 
For the CHP choppers to touch down 
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live 
              (G     Bm  A        D) 
Me and the brothers under the bridge 
  (D) 
Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light 
        (G) 
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night 
     (D) 
We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge 
              (G     Bm  A        D) 
Me and the brothers under the bridge 
      (Bm)                     (G) 
Had enough of town and the street life 
        (D)                             (A) 
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife 
             (D) 
Now I don't want no trouble 
And I ain't got none to give 
              (G     Bm  A        D) 
Me and the brothers under the bridge 
    (D) 
I come home in '72 
                   (G) 
You were just a beautiul light 
                      (D) 
In your mama's dark eyes of blue 
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid 
              (G     Bm  A       D) 
Me and the brothers under the bridge 
        (D) 
Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues 
               (G) 
I held your mother's hand 
                                 (D) 
When they passed with the red, white and blue 
One minute your'e out there 
And something slips 
 
Outro: (G Bm A D)