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Remembrance Day

Bryan Adams

RockAdvanced for beginners9 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

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Chords & lyrics

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Intro: F# B9  (x8) 
 
Verse 
F#                  B9              F#          B9    F# B9 F# B9 
For our King and our country and the promise of glory 
             F#           B9           F#           B9       F# B9 F# B9 
We came from Kingston and Brighton to fight on the front line 
 
     F#            B9        F#            B9    F# B9 F# B9 
Just lads from the farms and boys from the cities 
     F#           B9        F#          B9      F# B9 F# B9 
Not meant to be soldiers we lay in the trenches 
 
Ebm                           E 
We'd face the fighting with a smile - or so we said 
Ebm                       C# 
If only we had known what danger lay ahead 
 
Interlude: F# B9  (x4) 
 
    F#            B9         F#        B9     F# B9 F# B9 
The sky turned to grey as we went into battle 
       F#        B9     F#             B9     F# B9 F# B9 
On the fields of Europe young men were fallin' 
 
Ebm                       E 
I'll be back for you someday - it won't be long 
Ebm                             C# 
If I can just hold on 'til this bloody war is over 
 
    F#           B9     F# B9 
The guns will be silent 
      F#         B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
         F#         B9       F# B9 
There'll be no more fighting 
       F#        B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
 
Interlude 
F# B9  (x4) 
 
      F#       B9 F#          B9    F# B9 F# B9 
By October of '18 Cambrai had fallen 
         F#           B9       F#        B9     F# B9 F# B9 
Soon the war would be over and we'd be returnin' 
 
Ebm                       E 
Don't forget me while I'm gone far away 
Ebm                            C# 
Well it won't be long 'til I'm back there in your arms again 
 
    F#           B9     F# B9 
The guns will be silent 
      F#         B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
         F#         B9       F# B9 
There'll be no more fighting 
       F#        B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
 
E5            Eb5 
One day soon - I don't know when 
D5                                 C#5                           D5 Eb5 
You know we'll all be free and the bells of peace will ring again 
 
E5                 Eb5 
The time will come for you and me 
D5                            C#5 
We'll be goin' home when this bloody war is ended 
 
Interlude: F# B9  (x4) 
 
    F#           B9     F# B9 
The guns will be silent 
      F#         B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
       F#        B9    F# B9 
We'll all say a prayer 
       F#        B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
 
Interlude 
F# B9  x2 
 
       F#      B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
             F#     B9 F# B9 
Say a little prayer 
       F#      B9 
On Remembrance Day 
 
         F#           B9    F# B9 
Well the guns will be silent 
         F#         B9      F# B9 
There'll be no more fighting 
         F#           B9     F# B9 
Oh we'll lay down our weapons 
      F#       B9  F# B9 
On Remembrance Day 
 
Ending 
F# B9   (x8) 
F#      (x5)

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Chord set

F# · B9 · Ebm · E · C# · E5 · Eb5 · D5 · C#5

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.