standard tuning: D5 XX023X

                 D  XX0232

                 C  X32010

                 Bb X10030

                 G  320033

                 Am X02210

                 Dm XX0231

                 Em 022000

                 Cm X35543

                 G* 355433

                 Gm 355333

                 



intro:   D5   C   Bb   D   D5   C   Bb   



         D5

         I'm just and ageing drummer boy

                    C

         And in the wars I used to play

                  Bb

         And I've called the tune

                           D5

         To many a torture session

                  D

         Now they say I am a war criminal

                 C

         And I'm fading away

         Bb                      D5

         Father please her my confession 

verse 1:                

                G

         I have legalised robbery

         D

         Called it belief

                G

         I have run with the money

             D

         And hid like a theif

         G       

         re-written history 

                 D5

         With my armies and my crooks

                   C       Am

         Invented memories

                D5

         I did burn all the books

                   Dm

         And I can still hear his laughter

                   C                   Em

         And I can still hear his song

 

         The man's too big

                       D        C   D   C   Cm   G   Gm   D

         The man's too strong

verse 2: 

         Well I have tried to be meek 

         And I have tried to be mild 

         But I spat like a woman 

         And sulked like a child 

         I have lived behind wall 

         That have made me alone 

         Striven for peace 

         Which I never have known 

         And I can still hear his laughter 

         And I can still hear his song 

         The man's too big 

         The man's too strong 

verse 3:

         Well the sun rose on the courtyard 

         And they all did hear him say 

         'You always were a Judas 

         But I got you anyway 

         You may have got your silver 

         But I swear upon my life 

         Your sister gave me diamonds 

         And I gave them to your wife 

         Oh father please help me 

         For I have done wrong 

         The man's too big 

         The man's too strong