Fields Of Verdun

[Intro 1]
| A | - | - |

[Intro 2]
                   | Dm |
| Bb | C      | Am | Bb |
| Dm | Abdim7 |

[Verse 1]
A           Dm
 As the drum  roll started on that day
            Bb/D
Heard a hundred miles away
     C/D
A million shells were fired
             A
And the green fields turned to grey
           Dm
The bombardment lasted all day long
             Bb/D
Yet the forts    were standing strong
   C/D
Heavily defended,
              Bb                       F     C
Now the trap's  been sprung and the battle begun

[Pre-Chorus]
Gm             A
  Descend into darkness
Gm                    Bb
  Three hundred three days below the sun
C
 Fields of Verdun,

[Chorus]
Dm Bb           C            Am
     and the battle has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
               Gm             A
Fall one by one  under the gun
Thy will be done,
Dm Bb             C             Am
     and the judgement has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
                Abdim7                A
Fall one by one,      fields of Verdun

[Verse 2]
            Dm
Though a million shells have scarred the land
          Bb/D
No one has    the upper hand
               C/D
From the ground   above to trenches
             A
Where the soldiers make their stand
           Dm
As the trenches slowly turn to mud
              Bb/D
And then quickly start to flood
            C/D
Death awaits   in every corner
           Bb
As they die  in the mud,
             F         C
fill the trenches with blood

[Pre-Chorus]
Gm             A
  Descend into darkness
Gm                    Bb
  Three hundred three days below the sun
C
 Fields of Verdun,

[Chorus]
Dm Bb           C            Am
     and the battle has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
               Gm             A
Fall one by one  under the gun
Thy will be done,
Dm Bb             C             Am
     and the judgement has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
                Abdim7                A
Fall one by one,      fields of Verdun

[Bridge]
Dm      Dm        Bb                  C                  Dm
  Fields  of execution turned to wasteland from the grass
Bb                  Dm
Thou shalt go no further, it was said,
F                      A
 "They shall not pass!"
    Bb          F                C              F
The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war
   Gm        F
So go ahead, face the lead,
C/E
join the dead
Dm7             Abdim7
Though you die, where you lie,
             A
never asking why

[Solo]
             | Dm |
| - | A  | - | -  |
| - | Dm | C | Dm |
| - | Bb | - | C  |
| - | Bb | C |

[Pre-Chorus]
Gm             A
  Descend into darkness
Gm                    Bb
  Three hundred three days below the sun
C
 Fields of Verdun,

[Chorus]
Dm Bb           C            Am
     and the battle has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
               Gm             A
Fall one by one  under the gun
Thy will be done,
Dm Bb             C             Am
     and the judgement has begun
               Bb              Dm
Nowhere to run,  father and son
                Abdim7
Fall one by one,      fields of Verdun

[Outro]
         | A | - |
| - | Dm |