Song: Army dreamers
Artist: Kate Bush
Composer: Kate Bush
Album: Never for ever
Tabbed by: DJ 8th Sept 2014
B.F.P.O. = British Forces Post Office, a global postal
and courier service provided specifically for use by
British Armed Forces, a totally separate service from
the Royal Mail system used by the general population.
TIME SIGNATURE: 3/4 (Waltz time)
CAPO: 2nd fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Bm)
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
Am = x02210 G = 320002 C = x32010
Dm = xx0231 Dm6 = xx0201 F = 133211
Em = 022000 D = xx0232 Asus2 = x02200
N.C. = No chords
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Intro
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
Army ...dreamers! (A mammy's hero!)
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
| / / / | / / / | (A mammy's hero!)
Verse 1
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
Our little army boy is coming home from B. F. P. O.
[Am] [Dm6]
I've a bunch of purple flowers...
[Em] [G]
...to decorate a mammys hero,
[Am] [Dm]
Mourning in the aerodrome,
[Em] [G]
The weather warmer, he is colder,
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
Four men in uniform to carry home my little soldier
Chorus 1
[Am] [D] [C]
(What could he do? Should've been a rock star!)
[Em] [Am]
But he didn't have the money for a gui - tar,
(What could he do?...
[D] [C]
...Should've been a poli - tician!)
[Em] [Am]
But he never had a proper edu - ca - tion,
(What could he do?...
[D] [C]
...Should've been a fath - er!)
[Em] [Am]
But he never even made it to his twenties,
[C] [F] [Am]
What a waste, army dreamers,
[F] [C] [F] [Am] [F] N.C.
Oo, what a waste of army dreamers
Verse 2
[Am] [Dm]
Tears o'er a tin box,
[Em] [G]
Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know,
[Am] [Dm6]
Like a chicken with a fox,
[Em] [G]
He couldn't win the war with ego,
[Am] [Dm]
Give the kid the pick of pips,
[Em] [G]
And give him all your stripes and ribbons,
[Am] [Dm6]
Now he's sitting in his hole,
[Em] [G]
He might as well have buttons and bows
Chorus 2
[Am] [D] [C]
(What could he do? Should've been a rock star!)
[Em] [Am]
But he didn't have the money for a gui - tar,
(What could he do?...
[D] [C]
...Should've been a poli - tician!)
[Em] [Am]
But he never had a proper edu - ca - tion,
(What could he do?...
[D] [C]
...Should've been a fath - er!)
[Em] [Am]
But he never even made it to his twenties,
[C] [F] [Am]
What a waste, army dreamers,
[F] [C] [F] [Am] [F]
Oo, what a waste of army dreamers,
[C] [F] [Am]
Oo, what a waste of all them army dreams,
[F] [Am] [F] [Am] [F] [Asus2] N.C.
Army dreams, army dream - ers! Oo-----!
Coda
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
Doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo! (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
Doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo!
(Army ...dreamers!) (A mammy's hero!)
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
Doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo! (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
Doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo'n, doo'n'doo!
(Army ...dreamers!) (A mammy's hero!)
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
No harm ...heroes! (A mammy's hero!)
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | (B. F. P. O.)
[Am] [Dm6] [Em] [G]
Army ...dreamers! (A mammy's hero!)
[Am] [Dm] [Em] [G] [Asus2]
| / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / | / / / ||
