Readjustment Blues

[Intro]               [Verse 1] Just out of the infantry this morning I had to pay my dues across the sea But no one back in boot camp ever warned me What the readjustment blues would do to me. [Verse 2] Am        G     F "Welcome to Havannah" said the pilot Am          G     F "We must have made a wroooong turn on the way." "Let’s buy some cigars and keep it quiiiet    G F   Am If they don’t know we’re here we’ll get away." [Verse 3] Am        G        F Just as I had realized he was joking Am   G       F I saw we were in Washington D.C.        G   F        Am ’Cause there was all the patriotic buiiiiildings. G                F        Am Just like I had seen them on T.V. [Chorus 1] It must have been a holiday F C ’cause there was this parade. G                  F     C People carried signs I couldn’t read that they had made.    ’Till I got closer and my heart fell to my socks; C       G   There was a battle raging and the air was Filled with teargas and rocks. [Verse 4] Am        G     F There was the flag I’d fought against so often     Am              G            F The one I fought for hanging upsiiiide down     G                   F       Am The wind was blowing ha-AARD the dirt was flying    G      F               Am It made the city sky-YY look dark and brown. [Verse 5] Am        G                       F I saw a girl…    she could have been my sister Am G     F    Except her hair was lo-OONG and in her face G                     F              Am She explained…  this was a demonstraaaation   G                  F          Am Against the war… and foooor the human ra-AAACE. [Verse 6]            Am           G               F Now I’ve seen a lot of strange things in my travels Am G F Cannibals yes…   and aliens galoooore G F             Am But I never thought I’d see so many peeeople G                F Am Saying we don’t want your + + + wAAA-aa-aar! [Chorus 2]   The troops all had on uniforms F       C Just like the one I’d worn     G             F               C But they were all domestic… and myy-yy duty chose waaar Em    Am        F    They carried guuUUNS just like the ones across the sea        C    G Except this time I was the citizen      F       Am And they was pointing their guns at meEEE         C        G Yes I-III was just a citizen And I was walking down the street    C       G     F And it was just then that the Re-adjustment Bluuuuuuuuuuuues Got through to meeeeeee-eeeee