Peacemaker Chords by Hoyt Axton

_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It was a war bond that paid the doctor when [B] he was born
It [E] wasn't easy
He had a fever and he was dying
His dad [B] was fighting
_ across [E] the sea
He was almost to sweet Canada's border
When [F#] he ran [A] into man [E] was I _ on gunpowder and a federal order
_ _ [F#] That said you [A] gotta [E] fight and die
_ and he answered I'm
[G#] Running from [A] the people who are gunning down the people who are running for life
[B] _ I just wanted to be free to [A] be all that I was promised by the
[F#] fathers of our fathers long [B] ago _
[E] But it's getting kind of scary [G#] and it's getting [A] harder breathing [F#] and I think it's getting time for [E] me to go _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ When [F#] he ran [A] into a man [E] who was high _
on gunpowder and
a federal _ order
[F#] Who said you [A] gotta fight [E] and die _
When the man said surrender
[A] Oh, he kept right on a bow and [F#] he could see his [A] brother Jesus [E] by his side
_ [B]
And [E] they knew he wouldn't faking when [G#] the bullets started breaking [F#] through the body [B] of a [E] peacemaker tribe _
And he died for his country and [A] he was not mistaken
[E] _ [B] taking his [E] body back home
He wouldn't go into [A] the far eastern jungle
[E] Taking [B] his body [E] back home _
He just wanted to be free to be all that he was promised by the fathers of our fathers
_ _ [B] _
[E] And he died for his country [G#m] and he was not mistaken
[F#] Taking [B] his body [E] back home
He was almost as we can afford him
He was almost as we can afford him
He was almost as we can afford him
He was almost [B] as we can [E] afford him _ _ _