DDPro's Website > Tom Paxton Chords > There Was a Time
Capo 2nd fret Am G Am G Am G Am G C There was a time when cannons roared. G Am - G - Am Bugles sang a song of war. G Am G C Nations rose to win or die. G Am - G - Am They shook the earth with battle cries.
Cities fell in smoke and flames.
Children cried their mothers' names.
Nations fell to rise no more.
The victors were the gods of war.
C Em7/B Am - G - Am And I can hear their spirits cry. C Em7/B Am - G - Am This was a cruel way to die. C Em7/B Am - G - Am The spirits of these fallen men C Em7/B Am - G - Am Remind us of what might have been.
They left their homes and went to war
And died upon some foreign shore.
Their sons grew tall and soon were men,
And bugles sang their songs again.
And I can hear their spirits cry.
This was a cruel way to die.
The spirits of these fallen men
Remind us of what might have been.
(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1962)
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