One life, one love
C - F
- C - G (2x) - C
F C G
Am
1. Long years would be lost
and over since the morning train,
F C E Am
and
the words that he called out to her, "I'll be back again !
F C G Am
We will all be home for
Christmas, boys, it's what the General said",
F C Dm G
but little did they know the winds of war would
change the world instead.
- C - F
C G
O....h, in this one life, there
is one love,
C F G C
through
the ages to be with us evermore.
F C G Am
2. He played his part a hero on the battlefield,
F C E Am
‘til
a shell burst right beside, and brought him to his knees.
F C G Am
As the blood just flowed away,
he turned his face up to the sky,
F C Dm G
and a little boy was there beside him saying,
"Daddy, please don't die!"
+ CHORUS + C - F - C - G
(2x) - C
F C
G Am
3. No-one knew how he made it
through, and soon was on the way,
F C E Am
with
the wounded back to England, and from the early train,
F C
G Am
he
stepped down, and in the distance saw his wife and a little boy,
F C
who
came up running to his arms and said,
Dm G
"My Daddy has come home." + CHORUS + C - F - C - G
C - F C G
- C
+ Love of a different world in this one life.
(orig. = capo 5th) (Chris de
Burgh)