
Follow Your Girl
Across The Border
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Tom:
INTRO: 4x Dm
Dm F Am C Dm Am
INTERLUDE: (4x)
VERSE 1:
Dm
Well, my name is soldier John
F Am
and forgotten is my grave
F Dm
I fought for my loved country
Am C Dm
and I died young and brave
Am C
but I died young and...
CHORUS:
Dm
||: Follow your girl, follow your girl
F Am C Dm
don’t follow the call of a general :||
VERSE 2:
My girl said: please don’t go
when I was leaving the town
some of us never came back
for god and for the crown
for god and for the...
CHORUS
VERSE 3:
Weeds grow on his grave
watered by my tears
why didn’t he follow me
why did he block his ears
why did --- he block --- his...
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