Chords for Paul Hardcastle - 19 (The Final Story) [1985] HQ HD

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_ _ [F] _ This is the story of men who are [F] victims of war.
They [G#] fought the longest war in American history.
They all saw heavy combat in Vietnam.
Although they were all decorated for heroism,
none of them received a hero's welcome.
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19, 19, 19, 19, 19.
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_ _ [D] _ You see a lot of destruction.
_ _ _ You see a lot of buildings being [C#] burned,
you know people are being [F#] killed.
You shoot into bushes and you hear screams
and you know [G#m] people have been hit.
To see someone get hit with a high-velocity steel jacket and run, _
and be signed by people to kill other people.
[Dm] There is no more obscene way to [E] die.
Hundreds of thousands of men who saw heavy combat in Vietnam
have been arrested since discharge.
Their arrest rate is almost twice that of non-veterans of the same age.
_ _ There are no accurate figures on how many of these men have been incarcerated,
but a Veterans Administration study concludes
that the greater a vet's exposure to combat,
the more likely his chance of being arrested or convicted.
This is one legacy of the Vietnam War. _
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[D] They had VC and were [G] 12 feet tall.
_ They captured the 25th Infantry with a bag full of [G#] rocks. _
_ [E] Everybody went after Ho Chi Minh [G#] with broken bandits.
They were the baddest demons [E] I ever saw in my life.
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_ _ [B] 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19.
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_ _ _ _ [Em] I looked at this guy and asked him what he could do.
_ [C] He'd been hit right below his eye. _
You saw his face was blown away.
[E] He wasn't falling.
He was [F] just _ standing.
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He kind of half turned and fell.
[Em] He kind of half turned and fell.
He was just standing.
And then we came back and we were different.
Everybody wants to know.
[E] We kind of met with those guys.
There's got to be something wrong somewhere.
[Em] We did what we had to do.
There's got to be something [E] wrong somewhere.
People wanted us to be ashamed [Em] of what it made us.
They had no idea what it meant.
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_ All we wanted to do was come home.
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All we wanted to do was come home.
[E] What did we wait for?
All we wanted to do was come home.
[Em] Was it worth it? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And then we came back. _
_ [E] What happened to those guys?
There's got to be something wrong somewhere.
We did what we had to do.
There's got to be something wrong somewhere.
People wanted us to be ashamed. _ _ _ _
They had no idea what it meant for five, ten years.
_ All we wanted to do was come home.
_ _ All we wanted to do was come home.
What did we do then?
All we wanted to do was come home. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ This is the story of men who were victims of war.
[E] The longest war in American history.
They all saw heavy combat in Vietnam.
Although they were all decorated [E] for heroism,
none of them received a hero's welcome.
_ Unlike Vietnam, World War II saw [F] America unite behind the [E] fighting.
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Two wars were just as different on the front lines as [Em] they were back home.
_ _ _ [B] 19. _
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[E] Hundreds of thousands of men who saw heavy combat in Vietnam
have been arrested since this chapter.
Their arrest rate is almost twice that of non-veterans of the same age.
_ There are no accurate figures on how many of these men have been incarcerated,
but a Veterans Administration study concludes
that the greater [Em] a veteran's exposure to combat,
the more likely a chance of being arrested or convicted.
This is one legacy to be admired. _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ [Bm] All those who remember the war,
they won't forget what they've [B] seen.
[Bm] Destruction of men in their prime,
[G] whose average age was [Bm] 19. _ _ _
Destruction.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ After World War II, the men came home together [B] in troop ships,
often [D] less than 48 hours [Em] after general combat.
_ Perhaps the most dramatic [B] difference between World War II and Vietnam was coming home.
None of them received a hero's welcome.
_ [D] None of them.
[C#] None of them received a hero's welcome.
_ [Gm] None of them.
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_ _ _ _ [C#] None of them received a hero's welcome.
None of them received a hero's welcome.
None of them received a hero's welcome.
None of them received a hero's welcome.
[Em] And then we came back and we were different and everybody watched, you know,
[E] God, what happened to those guys?
There's got to be something wrong somewhere.
[Em] We did what we had to do.
There's got to be something wrong [E] somewhere.
People wanted us to be [Bm] ashamed [Em] for what it made us.
_ They had no idea what it meant for my [E] attendees. _
[B] All we want to do is come home.
[Em] All right.
All we want to do is come home.
[E] What did we do it for?
All [Bm] we want to do is come home.
[Em] Was it worth it? _ _ _ _ _