Travis Tritt

Travis Tritt - The day The Sun Stood Still guitar chord

Travis Tritt - The Day The Sun Stood Still

Capo1

C F C F

C

We were young and bound for glory

F

Itchin' for a fight like you

G

Bringin' hell and purgatory

Em

To the boys who wore the Blue

F G

And I thought I'd seen it all

Em Am

Till the day night wouldn't fall

F

Oh how the sun did blaze

G

Wouldn't go down for days.

C

I got shot and lost my rifle

F

When the first wave hit the rise

G

And the guns rolled out like thunder

Em

And the black smoke burned my eyes

F G

And I watched it all unfold

Em Am

Just the way the Bible told

F

Joshua's endless day

G

Keepin' the night at bay.

Am

And the soldiers kept a comin'

F

Til the ground looked like a sea

G

Of Blue and Grey

Am

And I watched it from a distance

F G

Wonderin' if I would've fought, or run away.

Chorus:

C

The Day The Sun Stood Still

G

How they beat the bloody drums

Am

And the seconds moved like hours

F

But the sunset never comes

C

And the cannons shake the ground

G

And the bullets test your will

Am

Even shadows found no cover

F

On that Godforsaken hill

G C F

The Day The Sun Stood Still.

C

And I watched them lean their shoulders

To the fearful hail of lead

G

And I prayed for night to save us

Em

And I cried and bowed my head

F G

But the sun just kept a-creepin'

Em Am

Cross a cold indifferent sky

F

Castin' a deadly glow

G

On all the men below.

Am

All the hours in a lifetime

F G

Don't add up to one while minute, in that s-un

Am

And the heroes and the cowards

F G

Look the same when they have fallen, by the gun.

Chorus2:

C

The Day The Sun Stood Still

G

And the North and South looked west

Am

But the evening star was sleepin’

F

And the daylight wouldn't rest

C

Out on the killin’ floor

G

The red sun on the hill

Am

Shinin' down on all the dead men

F

With a strange and eerie chill

G C

The Day The Sun Stood Still.

Bb F

Do not judge, what you brother does

C

Till you've walked a mile

G

Rank by bloody file

Bb F G

Who's to say, if you'll run or stay, and f-ight.

Chrous3:

C

The Day The Sun Stood Still

G

Is just beneath the skin

Am

In the soul of every soldier

F

Every battle that he's in

C

The Day The Sun Stood Still

G

Will haunt your dreams at night

Am

And stalk your every sunrise

F

Though you will not know it till

G C

The Day The Sun Stood Still.

G

How they beat the bloody drums

Am

And the seconds moved like hours

F

But the sunset never comes

C

And the cannons shake the ground

G

And the bullets test your will

Am

Even shadows found no cover

F

On that Godforsaken hill

G C F

The Day The Sun Stood Still.

C F

The Day The Sun Stood Still

C F

The Day The Sun Stood Still

C

The Day The Sun Stood Still.

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