Tom: C#m
D Am D Am
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[Verse 1]
D F#m
Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this
G D
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared
D F#m
Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more
G D
I'm tired and I just don't care
D F#m
How many tours is too many tours
G D
My baby she'd like to know
D F#m
'Cause always there at the back a'my mind
G D
Is that Jody's there when I go
[Chorus]
D Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
D Am
Never let 'em send me back
D Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
D Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
D
I ain't goin' back
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[Verse 2]
D F#m
Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot
G D
And Muqtada's local fighters emerged
D F#m
Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two
G D
And another later during the Surge
D F#m
Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care
G D
It was get it out and kick us some ass
D F#m
Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds
G D
But they educated me pretty fast
[Chorus]
D Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
D Am
Never let 'em send me back
D Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
D Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
D
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 3]
D F#m
Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light
G D
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen
D F#m
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount
G D
Get busy, fight it out in the streets
D F#m
Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops
G D
Haji launchin' RPGs
D F#m
Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys
G D
Draggin' on and on week after week
D F#m
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby
G D
But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque
D F#m
Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy
G D
But they couldn't help the guys that we lost
[Chorus]
D Am
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
D Am
Never let 'em send me back
D Am
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
D Am
Some shit went down in Iraq
D
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 4]
D F#m
Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home
G D
But they say they're all supportin' the troops
D F#m
There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that
G D
Out here thinkin's only for fools
D F#m
And as long as there's no lack of young man willin'
G D
To ride to the sound of the guns
D F#m
I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army
G D
And of both sides losing their sons
[Final Chorus]
D Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City
D Am
They ain't a-gonna send me back
D Am
My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty
D Am
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq
D
They're sending me back
