Mann Manfred - With God On Our Side guitar chord

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:22:04 -0700

From: Collins Crapo

Subject: CRD: /m/manfred_mann/with_god_on_our_side.crd

WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE

written by Bob Dylan

performed by Manfred Mann

tab transcribed by Collins Crapo

Time: 3/4

A / / D - - A - - 2 - / E7 / / A / / 2 / / 3 /

               D A         E7            A

My name, it is nothing; my age, it means less

              F#m            D                A

The country I come from is a part of the free West

                         F#m           D        A

I was taught and brought up there, its laws to abide

                         D    A      E7         A

And that the land that I live in has God on its side

Verse 2:

Oh the history books tell it, they tell it so well

The cavalries charged, the Indians fell

The cavalries charged, the Indians died

For the country was young with God on its side

Verse 3:

Then the first World War, it came and it went

The reason for fighting, I never could get

But I learned to accept it, accept it with pride

And you don't count the dead when God's on your side

Verse 4:

Then the second World War, it came to an end

We forgave the Germans, and now we are friends

Though they murdered 6 million, in the ovens they fried

The Germans now too have God on their side

Verse 5:

And now we have weapons of chemical dust

If fire them we're forced too, well then fire them we must

One push of the button, and a shot the world wide

And you never ask questions when God's on your side

Verse 6:

In many a dark hour I think about this

That Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss

But I can't think for you; you'll have to decide

Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side

Verse 7 (decelerate on last line):

And now as I leave you, I'm weary as hell

The confusion I'm feeling no tongue can tell

The words fill my head and drop to the floor

If God's on our side, he'll stop the next war