[Intro]

      Em         B

e|---------------2------3&4------------|
B|---------------3----------7-5-4------|
G|---------------3---------------------|
D|----2-2-2-2----3---------------------|
A|-----2-2-2-----2---------------------|
E|-0-------------2---------------------|

          


          E
He said, 'Son,
                 B
Have you see the world?
                     A
Well, what would you say
                        E
If I said that you could?
                A
Just carry this gun 
                     E
and you'll even get paid.                            B
I said, 'That sounds pretty good.

              E
Black leather boots
               B
Spit-shined so bright
                A
They cut off my hair 
              E
but it looked alright
                  A
We marched and we sang
              E
We all became friends
                     B
As we learned how to fight




[chorus]
          F#m
A hero of war
                     A
Yeah that's what I'll be
                E
And when I come home
                         B
They'll be damn proud of me
                F#m
I'll carry this flag
                  A
To the grave if I must
                        E
Because it's flag that I love
                  B
And a flag that I trust




                E
I kicked in the door
             B
I yelled my commands
                   A
The children, they cried
              E
But I got my man
            A
We took him away
                E
A bag over his face
                       B
From his family and his friends




                  E
They took off his clothes
                 B
They pissed in his hands
                A
I told them to stop
               E
But then I joined in
                 A
We beat him with guns
                   E
And batons not just once
               B
But again and again



[chorus]
          F#m
A hero of war
                      A
Yeah that's what I'll be
                  E
And when I come home
                        B
They'll be damn proud of me
                F#m
I'll carry this flag
                  A
To the grave if I must
                          E
Because it's flag that I love
                   B
And a flag that I trust



        E
She walked 
                    B
through bullets and haze
                 A
I asked her to stop
                E
I begged her to stay
                A
But she pressed on
                E
So I lifted my gun
             B
And I fired away



        E
The shells 
                    B
jumped through the smoke
             A
And into the sand
                        E
That the blood now had soaked
        A
She collapsed 
                   E
with a flag in her hand
                B
A flag white as snow



[chorus]
          F#m
A hero of war
                 A
Is that what the see
                E
Just medals and scars
                B
So damn proud of me
                          F#m
And I brought home that flag
                A
Now it gathers dust
                        E
But it's a flag that I love
                        B
It's the only flag I trust



          E
He said, 'Son, 
                   B
have you seen the world? 
                    A
Well what would you say, 
                   E
if I said that you could?'